Light at the end of the road...
I ended my last blog post, over eighteen months ago, with the words ‘Roll on 2019…’ As many of you will also attest, 2019 seems like a lifetime ago. So much has happened to the world, how we work, whom we value, what we look forward to. However, throughout it all, I have continued to write. Since starting my writing journey, I have attended six writing courses, joined two writing groups (and left one) and edited an anthology of short stories by local writers, all the while at
Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
"If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them" – so was the advice from Count Rostov’s grandfather, and a foreshadowing for this entire the novel. It is June 1922, and with A Gentleman in Moscow we find ourselves at The Metropol Hotel in Moscow after the Russian Revolution. The protagonist, Alexander Ilych Rostov – a member of the upper classes – has been tried and sentenced to stay in the glorious hotel for the rest of his life. He loses