“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes–a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.” E.M. Forster

My big news is that I’ll be off to Florence in October as Irish Writers’ Centre/St. Mark’s writer in residence, and I am absolutely thrilled, and hugely looking forward to meeting the Florence Writers.

I’ve had a thing about Florence for a long time, as Mr. Neil Hegarty astutely sniffed out. . .

That innocent-abroad ship sailed a long time ago, but the eternal yes never quite left me, so, like Charlotte Bartlett, I’ll be packing up my mackintosh squares and taking myself to Florence, to a view I’ve yet to experience, but what a room!