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The alchemy of metaphor (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In Joan Didion’s biopic ‘The Centre Will Not Hold’ there’s a moment when she speaks of seeing a five year old girl on acid in Haight Ashbury.

‘It was gold,’ she says, sharp-eyed and birdlike.

Didion knew the power of writing to transform... Read More about The alchemy of metaphor.

Revolutionary act (2022)
Book Chapter

Flash fiction longlisted for the Oxford Prize

Entanglement (2018)
Book

On a hot October day in a London park, Stella sits in her red wedding dress opposite John. Pregnant and lost in thoughts of the future, she has no idea that lying in the grass, a stone’s throw away, is a man called Charlie. From this moment, Stella a... Read More about Entanglement.