After retiring from my academic job, I started writing fiction. One novel became two and then turned into the Daniela Hoffman series. Dani's troubled relationship with her mother runs through the series and sparks growing points in both their lives.
So far there are three novels:
Daniela Hoffman is Not Stupid
The Third Father
Pure Dani
I also write under the name Eliza Quancy. So far just one novel - The Saulie Bird set in Papua New Guinea (where I lived for many years). It's a psychological thriller about Aulani who is accused of witchcraft but who escapes from her tormentor and goes in search of her mother. Aulani has a bad start, but she is stronger than she knows.
Throughout my life, books have thrilled me, comforted and saved me. I have so many favourites - Maya Angelou, Esi Edugyan, Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Tim Winton, Elena Ferrante, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Baldwin, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Andrea Levy, Kate Grenville, Margaret Atwood (especially her poems), Haruki Murakami, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maggie O'Farrell, Marilynne Robinson, Goethe, Yevtushenko, Colm Toibin, Rose Tremain, Yaa Gyasi - and so many more.
I live in beautiful Hastings.
And for many years I lived in Papua New Guinea, my second home.
My interests (apart from reading & writing)
Sound & Rhythm in words as well as music - when we read, we hear the words in our head (even though we're reading so much faster than we speak) so the rhythm and the sound matter. Not only in poetry (we all know that) but in prose, too. Our hearts beat as one when rhythms synchronise. Have a look at my post - Every piece of prose should be a poem.
Music - folk music, blues & jazz. I sing and play in a band with my husband called Blue Rumour. Hastings is full of live music.
I love -
Throughout my life, books have thrilled me, comforted and saved me. I have so many favourites - Maya Angelou, Esi Edugyan, Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Tim Winton, Elena Ferrante, Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Baldwin, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Andrea Levy, Kate Grenville, Margaret Atwood (especially her poems), Haruki Murakami, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maggie O'Farrell, Marilynne Robinson, Goethe, Yevtushenko, Colm Toibin, Rose Tremain, Yaa Gyasi - and so many more.
I live in beautiful Hastings.
My interests (apart from reading & writing)
Sound & Rhythm in words as well as music - when we read, we hear the words in our head (even though we're reading so much faster than we speak) so the rhythm and the sound matter. Not only in poetry (we all know that) but in prose, too. Our hearts beat as one when rhythms synchronise. Have a look at my post - Every piece of prose should be a poem.
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I love -
my dear family & friends, who are spread around the world,
meeting dogs & cats
...& birds - Did you know that seagulls can live until they're 50 and that they like to stick with one mate - and magpies are very clever....and that there are three wood pigeons who come each day to play on our veranda?
