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A cross between a palace and a prison
27 April 202628 April 2026

Alongside the humour in my novel, Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home, Matty’s story tugs at the heartstrings. But readers differ in what they find particularly poignant. One early reader told me, I was all right until I got to the nuns. The most tragic part for me came when I was researching ballroom dancing for…

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Trussed up like an Egyptian mummy?
26 April 202626 April 2026

The history of mental health care is littered with discarded treatments revealing the practitioners to be barely more rational than the patients. One fad that seduced me for a short time when I worked as a clinical psychologist was ‘earplug therapy’ for people who heard unwanted voices. Wacky as it seems, there was solid research…

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Author chat | Matilda Windsor is Coming Home | mental health

Authors in conversation: Judith Barrow
29 January 202322 February 2023

Do you like hearing authors talk about their books? Listen in to Judith Barrow and I chatting about some overlapping themes – of caring and writing about mental / emotional distress and disabilities – in our novels, The Memory and Matilda Windsor is Coming Home

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