Mimi and the Blue Slave
When grief strikes, you need an ally. For Mimi, that ally is Ableth, the wildly disobedient blue slave.
Catherine Bateson is a poet and writer for young adults and younger readers.
She lives in Kallista with her husband, a rescue dog called Winter, a wide assortment of tropical fish and whichever children have moved back home as well as her octogenarian mother.
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The Shelf of Solace
Nothing like reading about the Tudors to take your mind off your own misery. I started with Philippa Gregory’s Three Sisters, Three Queen. The novel is told in the voice of Margaret Tudor, who we first meet as a whiny, self-obsessed and envious little miss, jealous of her new sister-in-law, Katherine of Aragon and determined […]
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Here be dragons
I used to grumble about routine medical appointments. But it was a routine mammogram a couple of weeks ago which picked up early DCIS – noninvasive breast cancer. Immediately the health machinery was set in motion. The mammogram results took less than fortnight, the biopsy and follow-up appointment were made pronto presto. My GP was […]