Louise Mumford
‘If I’m honest, it was the prospect of turning forty that really kicked me into following my dream of becoming a published author.
‘Like many writers I was a bookish child, always reading, with a deep love for Anne of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie, aided and abetted by my battalion of aunties who would always buy me books for Christmases and birthdays.
‘I always come back to the phrase “you don’t know what you don’t know”. Even though I did an English Literature degree at university (one of the last fully funded places before student debt was introduced) and, as part of that, thoroughly enjoyed the creative writing side of it, I never even considered trying to write a book and
