About the Author

Lesley Garner has been taking notes all her life. Her thoughts and observations have been published as magazine features, profiles and newspaper columns for many different titles, including the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and London Evening Standard. She has been an art critic, book and film reviewer and when she's not writing, she loves to get out and sing choral music. She has travelled widely, lived in Ethiopia and Afghanistan, and currently lives in London. Author Residence: London

Reviews

A beautiful collection of short essays which act as a spiritual and emotional first-aid kit. The Guardian Lesley Garner has produced the perfect bedside book for those nights when you can't sleep and it's too late to call a friend. You magazine She writes like a dream...she is always wise, perceptive and utterly original. Daily Mail Superb The Independent