2025: The Year of Optimism. Let's Dream!

Firstly, welcome to all the new subscribers who’ve joined us over the past couple of weeks while I’ve been relaxing and recharging in my beach house on Western Australia’s south-west coast. It’s great to have you here, in what I think is the loveliest place on the internet, where we talk about books and writing and extraordinary women, with a little sprinkle of France and fashion and other fabulous things thrown in for good measure.

This is my regular monthly post for all subscribers, where I ba...