Hello
I'm Judith and I'm a writer.
This website is a place to find out more about me and my writing.
I hope you like it.
I'm Judith and I'm a writer.
This website is a place to find out more about me and my writing.
I hope you like it.
My first novel Pattern of Shadows was published by Honno Welsh Women's Press on 20th May 2010. Copies are available from all good bookstores.
Mary is a nurse at a Lancashire prison camp for German POWs. Life at work is difficult but fulfilling; life at home a constant round of arguments – often prompted by her fly-by-night sister Ellen, and letters from her conscientious objector brother. The only light on the horizon is a friendship with one of the German doctors. But gossips are eager for their next victim, for the least hint at fraternization with the enemy. Now, not only Mary’s happiness but her very life is threatened by the most dangerous of wartime secrets…
You can read the book reviews here and find out details about book signings and events here.
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In 2008 my short story Whose House Is This? was published in the Honno Anthology 'Coming Up Roses' a fiction anthology from Welsh women writing about gardens: what they mean to them, what happens in them and where they take them…
There are sad stories and happy ones, tales from home and abroad – all of them share a love for plants and planting, flowers and seeds, a real sense of the power of growing things to change lives.
And Strima Productions have turned my stage play My Little Philly into a film and it is now being entered into several film festivals.
I'm now busy with my third novel A Quiet Trauma. It's a work of fiction based on fact and tackles the subject of Stilboestrol, a drug prescribed to pregnant women for over forty years. This book tells the story of five women drawn together in friendship because of the terrible consequences of Stilboestrol.
The best way to get in contact with me is by email - thanks!