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…welcome to my website about my books The Grace of a Nightingale and The Wisdom of a Nightingale. I tell stories about human vulnerability, hope, love, living fully and making a difference in the world.
The Grace of a Nightingale has won a Finalist Medal at the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Memoirs (Personal Struggle/Health Issues).
It is available to buy worldwide in hardback, paperback and kindle.
The Wisdom of a Nightingale (2025) is for all those whose hearts are always beckoning to learn, live and love more deeply.
It is available to buy worldwide in hardback, paperback and kindle.
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2024 Indie Book Award Finalist
I’m delighted my debut book THE GRACE OF A NIGHTINGALE has just won a Finalist Medal from the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Memoirs (Personal Struggle/Health Issues) @indiebookawards The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is The Largest International Book Awards for Indie Authors and Publishers.
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The Music of the Nightingale
My first knowing encounter with music was listening to the radio as a young girl. I immediately noticed how rhythms, melodies and lyrics vibrantly evoked fresh exciting feelings and a life-giving energy. At the age of nine in 1971 one of the earliest songs I can recall was ‘Maggie May’ by Rod Stewart. I vividly
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My Memoir is Preserved in Perpetuity
My memoir ‘The Grace of a Nightingale’ is to be preserved in perpetuity within the five most prestigious libraries in the UK and Ireland: The Bodleian Library Oxford University, the Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales and Trinity College Dublin.
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Princess Diana, a Nurse and a Red Balloon
Princess Diana, a Nurse and a Red Balloon This year would have been Princess Diana’s sixtieth birthday. I met her briefly. This is a story of the indelible memories of that day preserved by the power of the liminal space between beauty and pain. While time can erase events from our memory, this is a
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Your Ego (who you think you are) Vs. Your True Essence (who you really are)
Throughout my life my ‘inner essence’ has often guided my work and career choices. It enabled me to make life changing decisions based on the desire to serve others and ignore my ego which was driven by selfish individualism. In the words of Richard Rohr “the ego is that part of the self that wants
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What is your calling?
What is your calling? It was the end of British summertime 1994. I had become a child of God earlier that same year – Easter. Six months later I was invited to join a close friend on a Christian women’s retreat at a secluded coastal Georgian country house. I was to receive a calling which I avoided for
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