Saturday 27th Jan 2024
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Busy week, so reluctantly cleared away the character cards for the Anna Maybury books. Despite that, hoping that the manuscript for Radiant with His Glory will be back soon. I am longing to get my teeth into something. When I have all the time in the world, I lose momentum. And when I’m nose to tail, I find time to create. I guess it’s the adrenaline. Too much and I get anxious, not enough and I want to watch television and read murder mysteries.
I’m beginning to love the books written pre-war, so second hand book shops are a bit of a treat. Of course you have to look past the horrendous sexism, which has only defeated me a couple of times, but I guess that is true for most historical books. We write entrenched in our own eras, and pre-war was also post first world war, so there was a sense of darkness mixed with a desperate optimism, and a hankering after comfort and stability. Our times … crazy politics and monetary hankerings, celebrity and for some, the sheer unrelenting job of keeping their heads above water. But though it is a time of war, climate change, politicians who have lost their way, I am still constantly surprised by extraordinary kindness. Nuggets of joy, that are tiny in the scheme of things but enable you to crawl from the covers and attempt to live.