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Susan Barrett

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SUSAN BARRETT spent her childhood in Devon and at school in Bath. She worked as a copywriter in London before leaving to live in Greece where she began writing fiction. She has had seven novels published in hardback and paperback in UK and USA. Other work includes travel writing, television drama, and wildlife and children’s books illustrated by her husband Peter. In the 1990s she trained as a humanistic counsellor and gestalt psychotherapist. After some years running a private practice, she returned to fiction writing by doing an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa. She has mentored new writers, held creative writing workshops at home, and has recently published two novels and a non-fiction work with CreateSpace, available as paperbacks on
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Susan Barrett At the moment I have a motley selection of books on the go. I'm reading the Aenid brilliantly translated by Cecil Day Lewis. His poetic voice brings t…moreAt the moment I have a motley selection of books on the go. I'm reading the Aenid brilliantly translated by Cecil Day Lewis. His poetic voice brings the Latin to life in sparkling English. I'm halfway through Martin Amis' The Information. He packs a lot of punch into every sentence. I admire that but I also find it wearing. It's also all about writerly jealousy, which is dispiriting. I'm halfway and already nearing the ropes, weak from the constant clever punches, and unlikeability of the main character. Light relief is presented by An Invisible Friendship, which presents the letters exchanged between Joyce Grenfell and an admirer called Katherine Moore, between 1956 and 1979. Two interesting women writing with intelligence about their thoughts and lives in a period that seems to us nowadays quite dated. I'm not at all sure what will be next on the list as the summer arrives.(less)
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While gently floating in the Ionian sea – or was it in the midst of a nighttime dream – the title of our present Greek book came to me.


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