Spring trip
Today I am on a bit of a nostalgia trip. This morning I am visiting the international school St Michael’s in Tenbury Wells, in Worcester. My husband was once the principal here.
Originally St Michael’s was a Cathedral school, training choristers for cathedral choirs throughout England but for the last twenty years or so, it’s been an international boarding school.
It’s quite an amazing place, a bit Hogwartian in appearance, with its arched gothic doors, cloisters, wood-panelled library and dining-hall. You wouldn’t be at all surprised to look out a lead-panelled window and find a game of quidditch taking place on the playing fields.
In fact, there is a magical connection for its interiors were used in the BBC tv series of The Worst Witch (by Jill Murphy).
In the afternoon, I’m off to Ludlow, “the prettiest town in England” where we lived for a couple of years and where I set my historical novel The Lantern Moon. I’m looking forward to seeing all the locations I used in the book – the castle, the river Teme and Dinham Bridge, Dinham House where Annie worked as a maid for Prince Lucien Bonaparte and Quality Square where William worked as an apprentice hatter.
Then I’m meeting up (for the first time) with Beccy Blake who illustrated the three Felix books, Felix on the Move, Felix and the Kitten and Felix Takes the Blame.
And then tomorrow, it’s off to London for a meeting with my agent to discuss a new project…










