I’m trying to think of something less clichéd to write than, ‘blast from the past’ but it must be too early in the morning. (In case you’re thinking – erm, who? We were in the same year at Wadham College, reading English, in the last century.)
I’ve pre-ordered your new collection of stories and the Writing and Motherhood book and am itching in anticipation to read it all. (I’ll have to itch quite a while – shipping to France will take a good two weeks).
Memories are both precise and fragmentary aren’t they? The first ones I have of you are saying ‘Well, Elizabeth Gaskell – she’s all very Ideologically Sound but there’s something missing.’ And Annie Weekes, a one year above us, telling me she’d glimpsed one of your essays – “That girl is BRIGHT – she was writing all this stuff about Narrative Tension…”

In anticipation of much narrative tension (but I hope not too much of the real life equivalent) -

Have a lovely launch,

Best regards
Lalitte