Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I am very happy to welcome Judith Barrow, a fellow Yorkshire lass. When I asked her if she would like to write a guest post, I didn’t expect so many familiar memories, a short story… and photographs of Yorkshire too!

Published by Honno,  Judith’s books Changing Patterns, Pattern of Shadows and the newly released Living in the Shadows, trace the journey of a family, from a Lancashire POW camp through to the 1960s.

Judith’s books are not just love stories, they recreate an era in a vivid detail that many of us will recognise and show that although the decades slip by, many of the underlying social issues are still as present and relevant today as they were for our parents and grandparents.

As well as being an award winning poet, a writer of children’s stories and seeing her play staged at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Judith writes