Reblogged from Fiza Pathan’s insaneowl… and interview with Judith Barrow.

“There was one English teacher who taught me in my teens, a man called Leslie Ellenore, who always said that, one day, he would be reading my books. He left to live in New Zealand and I never heard anything about him after that. I’ve often thought of him. I didn’t stay on in school for higher education so I was an adult when I took my A level English Literature over one year. I’d totally forgotten how to approach critiques of writing so I managed to write a whole piece on T S Elliot’s The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock without one single quote. I think if the tutor, a lovely lady called Lindsay Radion, had made even one derogatory remark at my attempt I would have walked away. But she didn’t…”

Read the full interview by clicking the link:  Author Interview: Judith Barrow | insaneowl