Fiona has now been booked to appear at the Ways With Words festival at Dartington Hall at 11.30am on 15th July - the history day. This year's programme and booking details will be posted on this site when they're available.

Kay Dunbar, the Festival Director of Ways With Words Literary Festivals, has just read an advance preview copy of The Garden Cottage Diaries, and said the following when inviting Fiona to the festival:

"I've just read [The Garden Cottage Diaries] - non stop as it is such a pleasure. What a treat. It is so beautifully produced too; a real joy to hold as well as read.... Congratulations! [The writing is] clear, fluent, evocative, poetic and a vivid recreation of your place, emotions and style of life. I'm very interested in the relationship a writer builds with his/her reader and felt your book made the reader feel respected and included."