Nightingale

20/05/2024 0 Comments

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...

09/01/2024 0 Comments

Introduction I discovered music on the radio as a young girl and immediately noticed how rhythms, melodies and lyrics stirred my inner world. I...

24/11/2023 0 Comments

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...

25/08/2022 0 Comments

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...

07/12/2021 0 Comments

Throughout my life my ‘inner essence’ has often guided my work and career choices. It enabled me to make life changing decisions based...

06/12/2021 0 Comments

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...

04/10/2021 0 Comments

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27/09/2021 0 Comments

My memoirs make many references to my ‘inner voice’ which has guided me throughout my life. Some would say this is our intuition or...

26/09/2021 0 Comments

The nightingale has totemic significance for me. Not only am I drawn to the symbolism of this bird of love and loss, it is also the name of the...

28/08/2021 0 Comments

Throughout my book ‘The Grace of a Nightingale’ you will discover how music has enabled me to find solace, beauty, love and hope...

20/08/2021 0 Comments

From the distant ruins of my past there are both unwelcome and inspirational memories which have been revisited in order to write these memoirs...

16/07/2021 0 Comments

It was back in October 2016 that I contacted Helen to ask whether she would be interested in editing my memoir. This is what she says about...