THE GWEN GRANT WEB PAGE
Welcome to my Web Site and I hope you enjoy reading it.
When I am asked how I came to be a writer, I have to say that I don't know because I seem always to have been writing stories, or poems, or plays.
When I was a child, I used to tell my sister bedtime stories - and when I was in the Open Air School, which was a bit like a hospital and a school combined, I was given the job of telling stories to the girls there.
So, writing and reading have always been two of the most important and necessary things in my life.
When
I was in my late twenties, I joined three other women in forming
a writing group. We gave each other a lot of encouragement
and support so if you write or want to write, I'd say try and get
together with other people who feel the same and have fun
whilst you develop as a writer.
I
have some more pages at Adventures
in Cyberspace
PRIVATE-KEEP OUT by GWEN GRANT
Pub:
BARN OWL BOOKS
ISBN: 1-903015-02-2
Price: £4.99.
Available
from Tesco, Amazon and any good Book shop.
'I
laughed so hard I choked'
They've
made her shriek with horror and gasp in wonder. Lucy Mangan on why
she's still reading children's books
Thursday
October 5, 2006
The
Guardian
Private - Keep
Out
The funniest children's book ever written. The
narrator is growing up in a small town near Sheffield after the
war, the youngest of six children, which familial position has
bred within her a blend of determination, fatalism and misanthropy
that should warm the heart of any child.
It was the first book
I wanted to share with anyone, and I used to read bits out to my
mother until I laughed so hard I choked on my tongue. I have
re-read it every few months since I was 10 and still have to have
the emergency services on standby for the bit where her Mam and
dance teacher Fancy Nancy have to hold her down to get her into
her costume for the town concert. The elastic in her knickers is
too tight: "'I can't breathe,' I said. And she said, 'What do
you want to breathe for? If them knickers fall down again, you'd
be better off not breathing anyway, so just keep quiet and let me
finish them.'" If you're not laughing, there's really nothing
more I can do for you.
Here's
Fred digging his hole. He first appeared when my web site was
being constructed and he was such a success that I asked him to
stay on!
Now
that I am rebuilding my site, Fred is busier than ever.
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