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Writing

Busy with books!

What better place to launch my new book than the Van Institute, with friends and family, food and drink and a bit of a get-together with those whose stories inspired the book.

Here I am, covered in an old white shirt to keep me clean while we set up. Very suitable venue:

Publisher and books all present and correct:

Frances has given everyone a drink and now they are sitting comfortably — mainly because I am on mute, then it all becomes very interactional…

Can you hear me?

No!

Can you hear me now?

No!

I thought they were all having me on, Can you hear me now? Yes,you can.

No! We can’t.

Then a lady jumped onto the stage, grabbed the mike and un-muted me. After that it all went very smoothly.

As a warm-up, the previous week, I gave a talk at Hay Castle — splendid venue!

I performed in the new bit — the Tudor mansion, the part with the roof!.

It is a magnificent community arts centre, and they made me very welcome and laughed a lot at my extracts which was gratifying.

Meanwhile Bill was unsupervised in the several wonderful second hand book shops for which Hay-on-Wye is famous. We returned home with the boot full of books.

Nervous author prior to talk.

Don’t forget the books!

Available direct from the publishers www.logastonpress.co.uk or from your local bookshop.

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You don’t have to be a genius…

Anne and Clive at their bookshop in Llanidloes getting ready to be inundated with requests for my book.

You don’t have to be a genius.. Published by Clinical Press (Bristol UK) ISBN 978-1-85-457108-3

Get your copy from the Great Oak Bookshop, Llanidloes, Powys, SY18 6BW. United Kingdom

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Writing

How do you see yourself?

I have a new book coming out soon so have updated my author page on Amazon. Here is the picture I chose — an image by Spencer Means (CC BY-SA 2.0) which shows me, or someone very like me, in the 16th century.

It shows how I often feel much more accurately than would a 15 year old studio photo. Don’t be put off — whatever I write is tempered with good-humour, not jokes but amusement and affection.
As a worn out family doctor I retired with my late husband to another world and in new places one notices things — in Mid-Wales I started to write. My friends were painfully honest and sent me off to university to learn how to do it better. My first book, ‘Iolo’s Revenge’ was published in 2018 about our adventures.


My new book ‘You don’t have to be a genius…’ comes out soon and tells how an ordinary, dyslexic but buoyant girl navigates another new world, that of adolescence, adult life and medical education. In the 1950s and 60s she was hardly a trail blazer but certainly looked at things from a new angle.

One of my daughters commented, ‘You raise a lot of issues, Mum, which, surprisingly, are even more relevant today!

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