Alison Ripley Cubitt's Blog, page 4
December 11, 2015
A courageous, emotional roller coaster ride – the best of Memoir Fiction
My first review for Castles in the Air: A Family Memoir of Love and Loss is now up on Amazon.com and it has come as an enormous relief. ‘When I started reading this memoir-fiction, I didn’t expect to read it all till the end … But I did. Alison’s narrative had me gripped. Having lived…
December 7, 2015
Characters, Creativity and Inspiration: Castles in the Air
Castles In the Air http://betterbetareads.com/castles-in... … via DebRhodes. My interview on characters, creativity and inspiration.
December 5, 2015
My Feeble Attempt at Setting up Another Author Page on Amazon JP
I write under two names. One of the downsides is the need to have two sets of author pages on the various Amazon sites as they won’t let you have just the one site. I’ve managed to do this successfully on the French and German sites, but when it came to Amazon Japan, I kept…
November 29, 2015
Help Identify This Singapore Family
Singapore knows how to celebrate Christmas in style and seventy five years ago, it was no different: British residents were still going to dances and cocktail parties, hoping against hope that Singapore would see off the invading Japanese forces. My mother, Molly Lambert was a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl, living at No 3, ‘The Corner House’ on…
November 9, 2015
The Inspiration for Castles in the Air
In 2010, as we were packing up for yet another long-haul move, it occurred to me that I was merely following in the footsteps of my expat grandparents, who had been the first generation to live and work abroad. Only they did it in the 1930s, when it was five weeks at sea to reach…
