I’ve written off and on for all my adult life, but have little to show for it. I loved doing my MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, but the memoir I wrote – No Small Inheritance – was never published. But various short stories have been, and I am hoping this section will flourish and grow and come to dominate the entire website! (But I’m ever destined to be a reader, not a writer, of poetry).
Journeys round a family
After my father died in 1996, I wanted to write his story. But it became obvious that the story was about a family as much as a man, and that our family epitomised many ways of thinking about inheritance. So it became ‘No Small Inheritance’, a narrative about genetics and disability and eugenics and genealogy and probably far too many different things. Browse the collection
1. I am talking at a meeting in a church hall. It is at a time in my life when I am always talking. I have so much to say, and it is too important to keep to myself, and so I tell other people about it. All the time. Now that I try to… Read More from This long disease, my life