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Gail Aldwin

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Novelist, poet and scriptwriter, Gail Aldwin has been writing for over a decade. Her first two coming-of-age novels where shortlisted in the Dorchester Literary Festival Writing Prize 2020 and 2022. Gail was awarded a creative writing PhD in 2018 and still laughs whenever she’s called Doctor Gail. She has appeared at Bridport Literary Festival, Stockholm Writers Festival and the Mani Lit Fest in Greece. Gail’s dual timeline mystery will be published by Bloodhound Books in July 2023. When at home, Gail writes by a window overlooking water meadows in Dorset.

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Sri Lanka, the teardrop-shaped island in the Indian Ocean is a remarkable destination. I spent a fortnight there with my Australian friend, Cathie. We’d been plotting a trip for a very long time – the Rough Guide I’d bought to inform an itinerary was purchase in 2008. Armed with an updated version, we followed a route planned by Cathie’s travel agent who had also appointed a car and a driver. (The

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