A long time ago I saw a fascinating program on TV, called The Village, about a bunch of folks who had escaped the rat race to go and live in a tent community in the mountains of Wales. I was so taken with their humanity, determination and survival I was inspired to create a community like this in my thriller, Tiger Tiger.

I also wrote out the words of a poem from one of them (never identified) that captured their purpose and struggle (I live with the land where I am, and I drink from the mountain stream, etc). You might find it somewhere in my blog.

When I had completed The Snowmelt River, I wrote to one of their founders, called Rik Mayes, praising their efforts and enclosing a courtesy e-book of Tiger Tiger.

Today, many years later, I received a reply from Rik to apologize about the delay and to say he was now about to read Tiger Tiger.

Some friendships are kind of long in the genesis. But I'm chuffed anyway to link with folks who were an inspiration to me.


Tiger Tiger