I was delighted to be recently invited to discuss lockdown, the FCO, and my latest novel with Amanda Loose, editor of North Norfolk Living. Her interview, The sound of silence, can be read on the magazine’s website.
I published my first novel – The Music Book – in 2014, the year I ran the London Marathon and two years after ending a full-time diplomatic career. I never intended to write more than one. I simply wanted to prove to myself that after years of Foreign Office drafting I was capable of writing…
Obsession is defined as an idea or thought continually preoccupying or intruding upon a person’s mind. There are harmless obsessions from time to time – the habit of doing particular things in a particular reassuring order, being obsessed by computer games or relentlessly pursuing a search for a rare collector’s item. Yet for some the…