Tag: Margaret Forster

  • What do I want in a story?

    Having just read Margaret Forster’s book ‘Is there anything you want?’ (and written about it,) I have been thinking around this tricky question … and also wondering if the answer has changed with age. There was a book I was reading recently that suddenly involved a situation in my life of which I didn’t want […]

  • June 2022

    As a child, one thinks of truth as a completely black and white concept. Something is either true or it isn’t. As one gets older everything becomes more complicated and the black and white merge to very many shades of grey, more than 57, more even than on a Farrow and Ball paint card. The […]