holding a space for your writing life

Tomorrow I will be leaving Reagh—a friend’s cottage in rural Ireland, complete with a maze in which it is absolutely possible to get lost, a fairy glade, magical garden, and a small river. It’s an enchanted place where pipistrelle bats fly in the evenings and we might catch a glimpse of a large hare. Following […]

Writing is the perfect metaphor for life in so many ways and when it comes to finding our flow, especially so. Writing is so reliant on rhythm and this rhythm can often be very different from the commonly touted need for balance in our lives. The rhythm of savouring We hear a great deal about […]

I’m currently working on a new novel. It’s set close to my home in France, in the forest and the protagonist is a herbalist. It’s set on one day—Summer Solstice, June 21 2065—in a world devastated by a more serious pandemic than Covid as well as further ecological disasters. It’s a story about hope in […]