I’m off to Somerset, land of my birth, to take my father back for a visit to old friends. I wonder if there is still more I have to write about this beautiful county?* I’m feeling encouraged by the response to my White River, Arkansas stories – a longlisting for my story How the River Breaks Your Heart, in the international Raymond Carver Short Story competition and what I can only class as a stunning rejection, possibly the best ever, for my novel – perhaps (for once) I really do believe they won’t have the room for it. Of course common sense tells me that in the end you find room for the irresistible – so nearly, but not quite, yet!
* My first novel The Sweet Track is set on the Somerset Levels
