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... The healing that grief brings takes time. Grief has scoured my heart, it has seeped through all the patched-up fissures and half-mended wounds, reopened old scars and cleared out the flotsam and jetsam of decades of "coping"...
Is it too late to say "Happy New Year"? Saying it anyway - and may your 2020 be filled with joy, love and the sort of challenges you truly thrive on. My run-up to the new year was strange. Normally I spend some time rounding up the events of the past twelve months, thinking back …
When I write a book, the characters kind of move in with me. I can't help it - they come to life in my heart and mind and only spill out onto the page when they are good and ready. Luckily, I really like most of them, otherwise this could get a bit tricky!
So let me tell you about writing my first novel, ‘How to Make Your Heart Sing’. When I began writing this story, I had a middle-aged woman with a successful life that no longer made any sense to her, I had an outline of possible locations and I had the first few pages of what …
Gitta Wolf 