After 10+ years of sandwiched caregiving, reflections on dementia, ageing, navigating the UK's social care system, ageing, relationships, loss and grief, and of course dancing.
On the other side of the sandwich generation, after a decade of care for parents with Alzheimer's and FTD and two young children. Writing about family, dementia, grief and navigating the UK's social care system
I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.
I write about the moments that make up our extraordinary lives, especially related to creativity, relationships, sobriety, motherhood, grief and joy. I like hearing other's experiences too, so we can connect through a sense of our shared humanity
Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.
A global top 100 life writing publication plus the host of acclaimed memoir and expressive writing group programmes
I love writing and I love an audience. I will be live writing my new novel The Pemberley Papers here and sending a weekly newsletter with glimpses of play rehearsals, script conferences, festivals and all the fun bits of this writer's life.