More about: In Search of Lost Girls

Links to various articles, including extracts, published on Secret Paths about the book.

Girl or Boy – Being both and neither… An extract in which Peter, dressed as a girl, and Andrew are to perform during a choir festival… v

Dressed in girls’ clothes – Had Peter been a girl, wearing a dress or a skirt and top, with those new-fangled tights that were all the rage at the beginning of the 60s, would not have been such a big deal, either for her or for those around her…

A key to the soul – Having some tricky changes to make and it’s not always easy. You can’t imagine how difficult it is to add a wall around a convent as an “afterthought”…

Numbers! – It often said that writing your first million words is an important landmark for a writer. Well, I just passed that landmark with my latest book,…

The end in Lucerne – As planned, I went to Lucerne to celebrate finishing the draft of In Search of Lost Girls. I also wanted to check a few points I was unsure about…

In Search of Lost Girls – I had not wanted to write a sequel to Boy & Girl, but the characters ‘forced’ me to write on.

An extract, close to the end – I am very close to the grand finale of In Search of Lost Girls. Only a couple more chapters to write. Here’s a short extract…

The epilogue – I have just completed the epilogue to In Search of Lost Girls. That doesn’t mean the draft is complete. Another five chapters of the fifty-two chapters remain to be written…

The wind blusters at a hundred thousand – Numbers maybe not mean much, but reaching a hundred thousand words is always a key moment, like climbing the last summit before you head down to the finish line…

The girl with the green dress – A brief extract about a pretty girl from the bakery named Bonnie…

Peter sings Blake – The extract from In Search of Lost Girls read by Alan McCluskey at Payot Rive Gauche in Geneva on Thursday, April 9th, 2015…