Mind Food for Women Writers
Available for pre-order now
(at www.queenbee.co.uk)
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
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.
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