Deze auteur schrijft fictie na een carrière als fotograaf en journalist. Haar journalistieke werk, met name over onderwijs, inspireerde haar twee non-fictie boeken. Ze richt zich nu op het schrijven van fictie, een levenslange droom, waarbij haar debuutroman een vrouw verkent die wordt misleid en opgesloten in een Victoriaanse inrichting. Haar schrijfstijl duikt in de psychologische diepten van haar personages en biedt een uniek perspectief op hun ervaringen.
Exploring themes of personal growth and empowerment, this book encourages readers to take control of their lives and pursue their dreams. It offers practical strategies and insights to help individuals overcome obstacles and achieve their goals. Through inspirational anecdotes and actionable advice, it emphasizes that a fulfilling life is attainable for everyone, urging readers to believe in their potential and take proactive steps toward a brighter future.
An intimate account of an inner city primary school, which shows how people at Edith Neville primary school approach issues that face urban schools everywhere. This book focuses on the progress of individual children, in some cases from the time they start nursery.
Harriet Heron's life is almost over before it has even begun. At just twenty-three years of age, she is an invalid, over-protected and reclusive. Before it is too late, she must escape the fog of Victorian London for a place where she can breathe. Together with her devoted mother, Louisa, her god-fearing aunt, Yael, and a book of her own spells inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Harriet travels to a land where the air is tinged with rose and gold and for the first time begins to experience what it is to live. But a chance meeting on the voyage to Alexandria results in a dangerous friendship as Louisa's long-buried past returns, in the form of someone determined to destroy her by preying upon her daughter. As Harriet journeys towards a destiny no one could have foreseen, her aunt Yael is caught up in an Egypt on the brink of revolt and her mother must confront the spectres of her own youth. Award-winning journalist and writer Wendy Wallace spins a tale of three women caught between propriety and love on a journey of cultural awakening through an exquisitely drawn Egypt. In prose both sumptuous and mesmeric, she conjures a sensibility akin to that of E M Forster and Merchant Ivory.
A beautifully written memoir of growing up abandoned in the desert city of Khartoum.