Embracing life in the slow lane: Postcard from Ireland and France β˜˜οΈπŸ‡«πŸ‡·

Book news: My fifth book, The Bad Neighbour, became a number one bestseller in several Amazon categories, which I was extremely pleased about! I hope some of these readers will be interested in the next novel I’m working on with some of the same characters, who I can’t bear to part with just yet. After … More Embracing life in the slow lane: Postcard from Ireland and France β˜˜οΈπŸ‡«πŸ‡·

Summer in the Pyrenees

Greetings from une trΓ¨s chaude France! I’ve retreated to the Pyrenees for the summer, where Mr E and I have a house. A friend and I stayed here first (with the dog), then my husband and more visitors arrived. Mostly I’ve been hard at work editing my WIP in between gardening, walking, cycling, swimming, reading … More Summer in the Pyrenees

Disconnected: Notes from a small village in southwest France

Note: Owing to the chaos of my life recently, I’ve had to delay posting this. October 17, 2015 The only sounds are a fly batting against the window and radiators clicking. Church bells strike 10am, long and noisily. A gate creaks. Then, nothing. I crunch into my pain complet, breaking the silence. This is my … More Disconnected: Notes from a small village in southwest France