I have now written more than a hundred posts about my writing life. The name of my blog comes from a quotation from Anais Nin, who said that writers taste life twice, once when they experience it and next when they re-create it for the page.

I think every novel is a new adventure but Starr Bright is quite a new development altogether. It’s about a woman who in her life has been hindered and helped by the gift of second sight. However when she’s cast down into profound disabling grief when her daughter is quite casually murdered by two boys, her gift for second sight fades and is no comfort. Her daughter is gone from her in this and any other world.

In despair her partner takes Starr to The Languedoc in France to rest and recover. Perhaps it works too well, because in the ancient town where they stay she recovers her second sight and begins to slip into other times with a man who seems to know other, earlier worlds. Here too a child is moving towards his death and Starr seems to be cast as his companion. In this process she gains insight into the survival of identity and personality and she returns strengthened, reassured and with the knowledge that somehow her daughter, in essence, is not gone from her.

Be back soon with a new format and new content

Best wishes