The Fowey Festival – the du Maurier Festival – was a real pleasure. It’s interesting for me to be in conversation with someone else – in this case the very competent and engaging Helen Taylor – because for once I … Continue reading →

Just leaving now to catch the train down to Cornwall, weekend with friends and then the Du Maurier Festival on Monday (at 4, for anyone who feels like coming!). I am being interviewed by Helen Taylor from Exeter University – … Continue reading →

Yesterday would have been Nancy’s 100th birthday – not that I think she would have particularly wanted to reach 100 unless she could have been assured good mental and physical health. But since Amateurs was designed to appear for the … Continue reading →

At the end of chapter 5, just as L and Nancy arrived in Corfu, I wrote somewhat vaguely (partly because I couldn’t remember where I’d heard it, and partly because it was one of those things that people hear in … Continue reading →