Larks sang their hearts out on my early Sunday walk this morning with Gertie, the JR. People were already down in the little coves swimming in a sparkling aquamarine sea…What a surge of joy there is in waking to a day so beautiful the heart soars. The cliffs and fields are bursting with jewel like wild …
Publication Day came last Thursday. The Long Road from Kandahar is out into the bookshops. I signed lots of lovely copies in the wonderful The Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. It is always a thrill to see your book nestling amongst others, especially in your favourite bookshop. Now, I wait, and hope people …
These are grainy photos of me standing in front of the golden Pir Panjal Range of mountains near Murree, once a popular Hill Station in the District of Punjab. We had just driven up the steep, isolated road from Rawalpindi, through tiny villages full of fierce turbaned Punjabis, not a woman to be seen. …
I am happy to tell you that Sea Music is on a special offer of 99p for the whole of March! So do take advantage or tell your friends who might not have read it yet. Sea Music and The Long Road from Kandahar were written years and years apart, yet they are both, in …
I am thrilled to reveal the beautiful cover for my new book. It reflects the heart and soul of my book so perfectly. It spans Cornwall, Pakistan and Afghanistan and is out on May 12th this year. It has been a labour of love to write. One of those rare books where the characters come …
These are the three lovely books I bought in The Edge of The World bookshop in Penzance as soon as the bookshops opened. I started with DARK SALT CLEAR by Lamorna Ash. This is an absorbing read, especially for all those who know Newlyn well and watch the fishing boats head out each day. Ash …
The Hour Before Dawn is a book very close to my heart. It is one of those rare books that wrote itself… It is on a special promotion for the whole of September for 99p ‘A rich multi-generational sage set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious diappearance of a young child sets in motion …
Come Away With Me was the last of six books that I wrote while I renovated a tiny listed cottage in a coastal village where this book is set. I only have to glance at the cover and the air is full of the lilting sound of waders out on the mudflats …
International Women’s Day has made me think about the women in my life both past and present. I think we take female friendship for granted when we are young. We know our social group will change. People move away, get married, divorced, have babies, but the ones that are special will stay somewhere in our …
The film Military Wives comes out this weekend and I can’t wait to see it. When the first Military Wives Choir was formed by Gareth Malone it felt especially poignant as someone close to me was doing a six month tour in Afghanistan. In the strange timing of things, I am on …