I feel very frustrated with the book I have written because I cannot easily explain what it is about.
I have just watched a programme on C S Lewis and as a result I feel enthused again. I am embarrassed to say that this book is about the meaning of life and the search for God and spirtuality.
The plot is a device which is supposed to explain the state of the physical world, approximately 100 years from now. So I am taking the events that are current and anticipating their natural conclusion.
There is so much talk of atheism, to the point where anyone of intelligence is not supposed to believe in anything supernatural. This leaves a dark and empty gulf of nothingness. I have tried to include facts such as evolution and I am suggesting that the total evolution of humanity must be to evolve into spiritual form. As the material world is all about the survival of the fittest it should follow that those with money have better lives. They clearly do in this world. Those who survive without too much regard to others will succeed. But now we have a unique glimpse as to what happens when everyone jumps on the same bandwagon. A credit crunch. If you invest money that isn't there and then everyone else does the same, sooner or later there will be a crash. Where does this leave the survivalists? Well, it appears they get bailed out by the rest of us. To me this indicates the futility of making money for its own sake. There has to be more to life than that. Particularly, if you fall into the not-so-rich category.
This is the point from which I have begun my exploration of the journey of the soul.My hero is ordinary. He is nobody in the eyes of the world. Nevertheless he still seeks for something enduring
and meaningful. The book is about this journey and is well researched. It is a message of hope for all those who may feel that there isn't a lot. I am one of them. I still believe that if there is something you really want to find then you must spend your time searching. My own spiritual journey started 20 years ago although I was always interested in this side of life. I did find some amazing spiritual truths but it has taken years to put it all together. Fortunately, I have one person who understands what I am trying to do. You just have to keep on going.

'Anyone want the Anita Brookner? Don’t all shout at once.’

My audience of three were less than ecstatic. One glanced momentarily from a Colin Forbes, one cleared her throat and flipped the pages of ‘Jamaica Inn’, the third laid aside ‘Great Expectations’ to reach for a glass of water. Much as I’d expected.

For me, though, she's the perfect holiday read.


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As soon as we get home, I leave Jack outside bemoaning the length of the grass and the asparagus that has gone to seed in our absence, and I hit Google. 'Am I pregnant?'

I'm directed to forums full of fifteen-year-old girls. They have been informed by their schools' Moral and Social Education teachers that if they ever go to a party lasting beyond 10pm, they will, inevitably, come home pregnant.

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Anticipation milks pale courage, drills clean holes. My legs are shaking still because this life demands the actuality of teeth with bite. Yes I ran away, or rather didn’t return for that last problem, the one where during the examination he’d shaken his head and said, ‘Ooh I’m very suspicious of that one.’


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Lee Weatherly is an award-winning children’s author. Her acclaimed novels for young teenagers include Child X, Missing Abby and Kat Got Your Tongue. For younger readers, Lee is the author of the popular Glitterwings Academy fairy series (writing as Titania Woods), as well as the upcoming series Pocket Cats; she is also the author of two picture books. For adults, Lee is the co-author of Teach Yourself How to Write a Blockbuster, and is a gifted writing coach, teaching workshop courses across the southeast.



Which writer would you be for a day?
I’d have to say myself, just because I’m used to my own quirks and foibles, and wouldn’t want to try to work out someone else’s in only a day! (We’re all mad as snakes, you know.) But if I could be myself in the Bahamas, that would be nice.

Independent bookshop or Amazon?
Amazon, to my shame. I love the convenience of shopping from my computer – though this can be a Bad Thing late at night, after a few glasses of wine.

Left on a cliffhanger or told all?
Left on a cliffhanger at the proper moment in the story, and then told all when it’s time to reveal all. I really loathe being left on a cliffhanger at the end of a book – it just makes me want to throw it across the room.


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ÒMaggieÕs EndÓ was performed at the Shaw Theatre of which IÕve not been to before and luckily itÕs a stones throw from KingÕs Cross which makes my life a lot easier.
I was really looking forward to this production and I wanted to see an audience with fire in the pit of their belly. And I did. It just seemed that it surfed on that idea and plot was a glimpse of an unachievable idea.

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Besides, what with all those Cornish pasties, it's as well I returned to London before my surfboard sank under me.



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It's always a nice thing to start writing in a new notebook. Like this one:

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Tomorrow is the day. My début novel will be released and I will finally be able to prove to the world that I am not an unemployable waster.

Well, actually, I am, but at least I managed to write a book at the same time...


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The ad was so enticing, so compelling with its swirling black screens, fluorescent colours and liberal application of exclamation marks that it free-wired directly from the screen to your frontal cortex and sent you scurrying to the crumb-filled cracks in the back of the sofa lest you’d accidentally dropped that handbag sized solar powered toothbrush-cum-car-wash device you’d been working on.

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