Rivendell>
Rivendell - not Tolkein’s last homely home in the
Misty Mountains of Eriador... A psychogeriatric
ward in Littlemore Hospital, Oxford in the 1980s.
Memories of the patients I met there will stay
with me forever - the fun, the pain, the anger and
the sweetness. Navigating the challenges of ageing
together - me at the beginning of my adult life,
them near their end.
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For Fife> NFF maps my
journey from teenage to adult life weathering
the stormy waters of the 1980’s NHS system and
coming face to face with the leviathan that
calls itself psychiatric care. Portobello Book Festival 2023
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Monkey Face>
Childhood was a happy time for me in many ways.
There was certainly no lack of love or material
comfort - but there was also school. School, as
far as I was concerned, was like prison, and I
would have done pretty much anything to get out
of it.
After the Citadel>
Losing my parents was a long and painful
experience, but those last years were precious
too. Our days were not all sadness and sorrow -
it was a time for reflection and love and humour
and - oh yes - whisky!
Gullane Games>
These stories are based on memories of my
childhood in Gullane on the East coast of
Scotland. They are set in the 1970’s and are
fictionalised accounts of my personal
experiences and friendships. The stories start
when I am about seven years old and end when I
am about fifteen. Black Panther 1 is a work of
pure imagination, my brother is not a vigilante
and did not kill Donald Neilson with a cricket
bat. Catriona
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