Sylvia Colley's extraordinary understanding of a woman's struggle to deal with grief, the denial, the anger, the loneliness, is described without sentimentality. A beautifully written and moving story.
Guest Post:
Ten Things You Need to Know About Author Sylvia Colley
1. When I see the word ‘Blog’ I have to lie down. I panic. Then I curse myself for being so - well- stupid and wish I was part of the younger generation. But probably I’m just lazy.
2. I keep chickens on my allotment at the bottom of the garden. Brown ones with names like Queenie and Jumper. I sit and watch the way they scrabble at the earth and continually peck up bits of this and that, their heads dipping and rising, their tails upwards. Busy Busy. And it’s been really useful in the novel I’m writing at the moment because one of the characters is an artist who paints like a modern Stubbs and he does paint chickens sometimes.
3. Now I come to think of it, animals feature in all my books. In Lights on Dark Water the cat, Fido, the only reminder of Anna’s husband left in her life, is stolen and dumped by some roadside by a jealous work colleague and in Ask Me to Dance (just published), an old, simple-minded monk who had been brought up cruelly in a Catholic boys home, is allowed to keep a wild rabbit - brought in to the kitchen by the monastery cat - much to the disapproval of some the brothers who make life very difficult for him
