At last!

I am in serious trouble with my very patient and long-suffering friend and colleague Adrian, who looks after my website, and set up this blog.  From time to time he mentions, with a despairing sigh, that he's checked up that everything is all right with the blog.  He used to add, "It's about time you updated it again." But now it's just the sigh and silence. Guilt stricken I rush to the computer with every intention of adding a new post, and then, somehow I don't.  I suspect Adrian is at a loss to understand why a writer is incapable of keeping a blog, he's not the only one!

 For the past few months I've had my head down trying to finish the latest novel and there is still some way to go.  So it's been a very busy time, much of it spent alone in a room with a computer. 

I've been invited to speak at the University of Western Australia Spring School in October so if you'd like to come along just check out the booking details on this link to the brochure: http://www.extension.uwa.edu.au/

I've been doing a lot of reading too.  I particularly loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by  Mary Ann Shaffer.  It's her first and sadly also her last novel.  A 70-year-old-librarian, she was goaded by her book club into writing this book, but she died in December last year before seeing it in print.  It is a deceptive book because it's such fun, so finely tuned, and so entirely engaging that you don't realise you're getting a wonderfully detailed picture of life in the Channel Islands under the German Occupation. 

Another pleasure in recent weeks was Mama Mia - the movie.  I just loved all those women dancing along to Dancing Queen now I can't get those ABBA songs out of my head, they are so infectious. If you haven't seen it yet don't miss it, everyone in the cinema was singing along, it's enormous fun.

Back again soon, Liz

Comments

[kerry white]

My daughter bought me two of your books for my birthdy. I just loved them. iespecially loved that the characters were in my age group.They gave me the feeling that there is always something more to look forward to and tha t even though we may look older, we are still young at heart. I cant wait to read the next one!