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London, The United Kingdom

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Fiction, Psychology, Suspense

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Virginia Woolf told me I could say what I liked.

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Working backwards, I'm 64 and have just retired after 26 years as a psychotherapist. I've been writing forever, most recently as part of a writing group run by Lindsay Clarke which I was part of from 2005 to 2018. This particular novel was inspired by a devastating love affair which ended in tears and madness in 2004.
Prior to that, I trained as a counsellor in the 1990s – this led to a great deal of concern about the dumbing down of this training, about which I have written extensively (see www.counselling-southwest.co.uk). Many of these concerns have made their way into The Fantasist's Assistant as has a far deeper understanding of the way in which the experience of loss is massively impacted by the history of the client's past losses.
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