WHAT THE POOR PEOPLE ARE DOING

In which an elderly lady manages her loneliness with a little harmless make believe.

What The Poor People Are Doing


CHANGES OF ADDRESS

A collection of linked stories following the life of Lily Brennan from early days in the Australian outback to old age in Great Britain.   Although it is a work in progress, two of the stories have already been published - Home Ground was included in the 2005 Wakefield Press anthology On Edge , and Stars Of The Milky Way appeared in the literary magazine Wet Ink .

Extracts from Changes of Address:

Changes Of Address

Stars Of The Milky Way


SPLITTING

This story was born at Adelaide Writers' Week, 1998. I was there  to attend the launch of a poetry collection and accidentally ended up in a lecture on The Lure of Mathematics .

Splitting, in which a woman steps out of her life and into one she likes better, was broadcast on Radio 5UV South Australia, in September 1999. As my first published fiction, I retain fond feelings for the heroine, Bridget Tucker and her private revulsion for pickled octopus

Splitting


AN EDWARDIAN CHILDHOOD

"It was the consistency she loved about her Spode, the reliability. If you looked after it you could hand it intact to your grandchildren. Break a piece and you could replace it with another exactly the same. Unlike marriage, Spode lasted."

An Edwardian Childhood was broadcast on Radio 5UV in May 2000.

An Edwardian Childhood