Priscilla RIP

At a moving ceremony on Friday evening a prayer was said for my aunt Priscilla, who died 41 years ago. In 1938, she had become a Catholic in order to marry her first husband, and then, rather like Graham Greene, started to take her new faith seriously, but concealing this from her friends and English family. Only to [...]

Priscilla RIP2013-11-11T21:17:46+00:00

Author interviews

The whole business of being published is the literary equivalent of the bends. Submerged for four years during the researching and writing, you are propelled, gasping and choking, to the surface. From having existed, as it were, as a solitary fish – living a life of "problems and drudgery" in Halldor Laxness's phrase about writing – [...]

Author interviews2013-11-03T12:56:03+00:00
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