It isn’t often that the author, scriptwriter, producer, director, actors etc. etc. all pool to make perfect chemistry in a movie. Now the storyline is tough and uncompromising. Several of the scenes that empower the heroine to her own form of retribution are so stomach-churningly abusive to her that it’s almost impossible to watch. But [...]

An authorly one, this one. You know how when you’re writing and it doesn’t feel right? Our characters are hard at it, steeped in poverty, hunger, degradation and unemployment. Yet something’s wrong.  The foundation of our business is conflict; dig a deep deep hole and climb out of it somehow. But how easy it is, [...]

This week, my husband and I attended a beautiful service. Not held in church, but in Dorset woodland where the trees were the only canopy above. Luckily the rain had stopped, leaving the air as scented as incense. The couple, both in their sixties, had asked a few friends and family to be with them [...]