When did you last get to know someone new? No, I don’t mean the last time a new colleague arrived at work and you had to show them where the teabags and kettle were kept. Or the last time you went on a date with someone you matched with on
Today, I’m off to beautiful Bath to give a talk as part of the Bath Mozartfest. It’s a place close to my heart: I went to school not very far from it, and remember weekend visits as a teenager, sitting in the cinema with my friends trying to recreate that
Have you ever read Penelope Fitzgerald’s wonderful, funny, deeply moving novel The Bookshop? If you haven’t, you really should – set at the end of the 1950s, it traces the attempts of the brave Florence Green to set up a shop in the midst of local objections and ‘alternative solutions’
