Stars to Steer By - forthcoming

Stars To Steer By has either been a life time in the making, as it’s a c20th book and I was born in 1954, or it sprung into being after commentator Alex Scott’s remarks after the football Lionesses won the European Championship in 2022. She didn’t hesitate to point to the curmudgeonly attitudes that had made ‘the beautiful game’ so unnecessarily hard on women players. She praised their tenacity and courage to keep playing anyway. It made me think of the prejudices and impediments in the way of the ‘Lionesses of the Sea’ - women who wanted to sail and overcame many difficulties to fulfil their dreams.

Suffolk journalist Catherin Larner is an excellent interviewer and offered to sit me on a river wall bench in Woodbridge and help me think through what it had all been about. What had I taken away from the writing experience? she asked in advance. I used my March 2025 Author’s Electric blog to answer her https://authorselectric.blogspot.com/2025/03/takeaways.html