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Crocodiles, Cakes and the Queen's Petticoats

The WI Memoir Journal Volume 1


Launching December 2011

From the austerity of the post-war years to the influence of teachers and mentors, from early wonder at overseas travel to the challenge of developing careers, this precious collection gives us invaluable insights into the lives of women over the past 80 years. Family customs and secrets, love, separation and loss, all play their part in some particularly poignant tales. It is a treasure trove to read. 

“I was moved to laughter and tears by these extraordinary stories of ordinary lives,” Lucy Cavendish, novelist and co-founder, Queenbee Press

 “The WI members who took part in the Women’s Memoirs truly embody the WI strap line ‘Inspiring Women,” Ruth Bond, Chair of the NFWI

 Published in collaboration with The Contemporary Women Writers’ Club


Uur latest Collection Available Now!

Ten Past Eight



a collection of short stories by 

Miranda Glover, Lucy Cavendish, Rachel Jackson, Anne Tuite Dalton and Jennie Walmsley

with an introduction by Rachel Johnson, The Lady: 
“A collection of dazzling, dirty verve and dash.” 

It is ten past eight in the evening, a time of transition, day to night, light to dark. As one married woman is exposed as having a lover, another realizes how much she loves her family, even though her children are growing up. These stories are about moments that change women’s lives. Set at the same time on one day, one woman re-discovers the joys of the erotic, a young girl discovers a future through Virginia Woolf, another will take her own life. The lives of 12 women are about to change….

The second collection from the well-established Contemporary Women Writers’ Club; Lucy Cavendish, Miranda Glover, Rachel Jackson, Anne Tuite-Dalton and Jennie Walmsley.Our first collection, The Leap Year, as featured in Red and The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail, got to No 3 on the amazon short story chart.

For press enquiries contact us at Queenbee Press


 

Recent articles

  Can anyone survive an emotional affair?
Mar 18, 2011
This is what will be discussed on the 20th April on the Vanessa Feltz show on Channel Five. Lucy Cavendish and a panel will debate this issue as well as many others. Lucy Cavendish will also be promoting Jack and Jill and our new short story collection Ten Past Eight.
  Daphne Guinness
Feb 23, 2011
In honour of London Fashion Week, Lucy Cavendish gets a rare moment with the extraordinary fashion maven
  The Tiger Mum
Feb 23, 2011
Lucy Cavendish interviews Tiger Mum Amy Chua and manages not to get rapped over the knuckles!
  The Leap Year: extracts (in: The Leap Year)
Jan 6, 2011
have a taste of the stories in this dazzling collection...
  CWWC founder Jennie Walmsley awarded place in Guardian Travel Writing Competition (in: Home)
Dec 7, 2010
We are proud to announce that Jennie Walmsley, a founder of the CWWC, was recently declared runner-up in the prestigious Guradian Travel Writing Competition.  You can read Jennie's piece here... 
  Rachel Johnson writes exclusive preface to Ten Past Eight
Nov 10, 2010
Rachel Johnson - sister of Boris, editor of The Lady, former national newspaper columnist and all-round good woman - has written this praise-worthy introduction for our new collection Ten Past Eight. She says, 'a collection of dirty dash and verve.' Hear hear!
  How to Get an Agent (in: Exercises, Hints and Tips)
Nov 10, 2010
EXCLUSIVE! Caroline Wood, literary agent from Felicity Bryan, whose impressive stable of writers include  to Sadie Jones, Phyllida Law, Martin Walker and our own Lucy Cavendish, reveals from the inside, the secrets of how to get that writing career off the starting block - GET AN AGENT! This is how...