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Patricia Cleveland-Peck started writing at the age of ten, and her first works were plays in which she forced her friends to act. Later in life, Patricia published fourteen children’s books including The String Family, Much Too Much, The Bus From Beyond and Shepherd Boy. She has also written adult books and plays, and visited many countries as a travel journalist. She now lives on a smallholding in Sussex, surrounded by animals.

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Voyage in the Dark

Patricia Cleveland-Peck on the novels of Jean Rhys

Good Morning, Midnight is in fact the fourth in a series of novels that draw largely on Jean Rhys’s own life. Sasha Jansen is a lonely, ageing alcoholic who, at the instigation of a worried friend, goes to spend a recuperative fortnight in Paris, where she had lived during her brief marriage. Now she wanders the streets, ‘remembering this, remembering that’. She has been so damaged by men that when happiness is within her grasp she is unable to prevent herself seeking revenge with a futile gesture of self-destruction.

Impossible Love

Patricia Cleveland-Peck on Andrea di Robilant, A Venetian Affair: A True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century

As I make my way through narrow passages and over numerous little bridges, I am trying to imagine a Venice of two and a half centuries ago, the Venice of A Venetian Affair by Andrea di Robilant. Not only the book but the way it came about is intriguing. It is every writer’s dream to come across a cache of letters which tell a riveting but true story. Add to this the setting of Venice, a cast of characters that includes a beautiful English girl, a Venetian nobleman and (of course) Casanova, and a book begs to be written.

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