The novelist and human rights campaigner JH Morgan’s life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted as a teenager. Today, the mum-of-three has turned her life around and ...
Narcissists and abusive partners use coercive tactics to threaten, intimidate and control others. This is highly emotionally and psychologically abusive and is now recognised as a criminal offence in England ...
My father was a bigamist. He left my mother unmarried, with two small daughters. She worked in a factory, (the men had returned from the war and the good jobs ...
The first of ten things I’d like my readers to know about me is that readers are dear to my heart. I deeply appreciate those who read and teach and ...
Take some precious me-time to write in a journal. You’ll find you enjoy impressive benefits if you follow some simple positive guidelines. Anyone can keep a journal, and it’s not ...
I was born in Fulham, London to a Singaporean born father of Burmese/Phillipino heritage and an Irish mother. I was raised in North Finchley and although I now live in ...
Whether I’m doing therapy with The Bachelor or a Real Housewife on TV or working with the girl next door, I’ve found the rules of love are universal. Learn and ...
Chapter One It took three and a half seconds for me to fall. And yet it felt like slow motion. I landed awkwardly on the canal path. Stones rough against ...
I used to go on holiday with cookery books in my suitcase. Nigel Slater has been everywhere with me! I love to visit local markets and cook in the place I’m ...
The process of writing my memoir proved to be both a personal and literary lesson, which will add value to my life for years to come. After the break up ...
When I was carrying out research for The Seaside Angel, my investigations took me in many directions from the history of nursing and healthcare, to the rise of the Victorian ...
Author, Victoria Cornwall, tells Female First how as a gangly 1979 platform-shoe-wearing teenager, forgetting her past, inspired her future... Little did I realise that the events about to unfold, ...
I’m named after my paternal grandmother who died a few months before I was born. She’s remembered fondly as a savvy business women who loved to cook – just like ...
Working as a journalist in Iceland, I was once blacklisted by a prime minister. But I got my revenge. He became the inspiration for the most obnoxious villain I’ve ever ...
1. My first book startled me! I remember watching a friend’s Labrador producing her very first puppies. Eventually, she became a contented mother of nine, but it didn’t start out ...
My first book, the Forgotten Guide to Happiness, has in it a character that was loosely based on my mother, when she was in her eighties. What the editor liked ...
Although the future UK cut off from the rest of the world and ravaged by environmental disasters that I’ve envisaged in my novel now seems very much like the one ...
When I was pre-teen, I auditioned for the Mickey Mouse Club. In the early 1990s, there was a casting call in Chicago for the Disney Channel’s updated version of the Mickey Mouse ...
