REMEMBER PEMBER

Before getting a break as a Trainee Copywriter, I'd been a painter and maker of disturbing collages, with a sort-of-studio in a squatted ex-hospital in Stockwell. I did all sorts to support myself. I worked in shops and on adventure playgrounds, put in late night and all-nighter shifts at the Ritzy cinema, worked in admin for the probation service, was PA to the Director of an art and architecture practice… you get the picture. Then I won a writing competition and starting looking for jobs with the word ‘writing' in the title... It turned out I was good at connecting with people and that I had a knack for jiggling free the messages that most resonate with readers. This has proved particularly valuable in finding and telling authentic stories. Over recent years, I've been privileged to meet with all kinds of people from abuse survivors and the recently bereaved to eminent professors in fields as diverse as dementia and behavioural psychology... With me, there's usually an element of..

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