Tag Archives: behind the book
Meet the author: Peter Best
Today, I’d like to welcome Peter Best to my blog. Peter was born in North Shields in the North East of England at the beginning of the sixties. Although the son of a shipyard worker, he was brought up in a mining community until the age of eight when, for some reason or another,…
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Meet the author: Harriet Steel
Harriet Steel is married with two grown-up daughters. She spent her childhood in Wiltshire and went to school in the New Forest. After leaving school, she took ‘A’ Levels at Queen’s College in London, read Law at Cambridge University and qualified as a solicitor; subsequently, she worked in private practice. A long-standing interest in writing…
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Love for Sale: Rupert Everett
Last week Dan Holloway asked me about the research I had carried out for my novel, An Unchoreographed Life, which tells the story of a ballerina who turns to prostitution when she becomes a single mother. In truth, it was very easy to find historical accounts of prostitution. There was no shortage of reference books for…
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“I could tell you things to make you blush or weep.”
Surrey Life Magazine’s book reviewer told me that she was intrigued by the sound of AN UNCHOREOGRAPHED LIFE, my story of a ballerina who, on becoming a single mother, turns to prostitution. But was I aware of the 1940 film, Waterloo Bridge (in which a ballerina, Myra – played by Vivien Leigh – resorts to prostitution when…
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