This is to let you know that I’ve all but completed writing my fifth novel, ‘It all began in Florence’. It’s a novel based on the extraordinary life of Ethel Smyth, one of the most brilliant of English composers. She was witty, bright and composing was in her blood from an early age. She eventually […]
Welcome to my blog or welcome back again to my returning readers! I’m delighted to report that I have now had over 15,000 hits on the site. Many thanks to all of you from all over the world who have taken the trouble to land here! I look forward to writing more on the blog, […]
Now we are slowly and probably coming out of this corona virus crisis, I thought I would write a series of more frequent and more regular blogs, based on my Instagram feeds. This will be the first! This is a nice old Cadillac de Ville we saw at the Stony Stratford Car show on Boxing Day. […]
As you know, I’m in the middle of writing a novel about Ethel Smyth, one of our most famous composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I discovered that she went on a trip with The Empress Eugenie, the widow of Napoleon III, who became a good friend of Ethel’s after The Empress moved to Farnborough. […]
Hello everyone and welcome back to my site. Or welcome to anyone visiting for the first time! In my previous post, I published a draft of the draft of the first chapter of my new novel. The story is about Ethel Smyth, a brilliant, almost forgotten composer of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. She wrote many incredible works […]
