‘And if you stand on tiptoe, you can see the whole way that you came…. and a little further’                      from Zoe’s Tower (1991, Paul and Emma Rogers & Robin Bell Cornfield, Walker Books London)

Influences….

Swedish author, Astrid Lindgren, created Pippi Longstocking in 1944 when her nine year old daughter asked for a story while staying home from school with pneumonia. I, too, during my many bouts of bronchitis and asthma …, was read extracts from Pippi Longstocking’s books and also told many other stories…

& Privacy….

‘All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing’ Katherine Fullerton Gerould

‘…They realized (as if by electric shock) that private and public are two essentially different worlds and that respect for that difference is the indispensable condition, the sine qua non, for a man to live free; that the curtain separating these two worlds is not to be tampered with, and that curtain-rippers are criminals” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being