In the story, a wicked stepmother queen cursed 11 princes, and turned them into swans. Their sister the princess was also hated by the queen and cast out of the palace. To save her brothers from this curse, she had to suffer pain day and night, while she turned thorny nettles into fl...
I also like the facts she includes such as how it takes between two and ten years to write a novel, finding this encouraging as I always think everyone else is so much faster at writing than me. One of my favorite vignettes is when a reader asks her who will teach her to write, ...
Getting engaged means getting married, and that means finding somewhere suitable for living, and as my fiancée had deep roots in the Bristol area – and as I was happy to be close to Bristol for PhD purposes – at the beginning of 2024 I started to look at the job pages of the Church...