Authors Electric

  Hello everyone, it’s so great to be given the opportunity to blog with the Authors Electric!    As this is my first blog, I’ll give you a rundown of what makes me tick.   I’m a mother to three grown ups, and two enormous dogs named Bear and Baloo, they’re Black Russian Terriers and weigh 65 kg and 44 kg respectively. I spend a great deal of time wiping up dribble, from the dogs, not the grown up kids! Baloo the baby! Bear the big boy! Nearly three years ago now, my husband and I decided that we had really had enough of our jobs, the state of the country and the weather, so we upped sticks from the UK and moved to central France. As such our Great French Adventure began! We bought a rundown granite stone farmhouse and embarked on restoring and renovating it. When we arrived we couldn’t speak French and didn’t know the area but the kindness of strangers is real and our French neighbours have been fantastic.  This was how the house looked when we moved in! The mo...

Atticus, The Sunday Times, 21.10.18 Flicking through The Sunday Times this week, my eye was caught by this snide little piece in the media gossip column, Atticus (pic, right): Amusing, yes, especially for Sir David Hare.   It’s not his fault that the public don’t know Woolf’s work well enough to distinguish which words she genuinely wrote and which are the ones that he, adapting a novel about Woolf for the screen, makes her say. How hilarious that Hare’s clever line is now attributed to the author herself! And how naïve of the academic, bless them, to confuse a fictional film with a biopic! I mean, who does that?   No one, obvs.  Except the countless people on the internet who now attribute Hare’s line to Woolf. QED. Richmond - a fate worse than death, as Virginia Woolf (above, Getty Images) didn't say.  Does anyone else hear a great clunk of irony in Atticus’s stonkingly patronising attitude to the academic? She or he is the...