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Writing


Novels – Several unfinished pieces have played around for years in idea and note form, better left in cold storage.  Ann Mary is working on a multi-generational, inter cultural novel, playing in the 20th. century plus editing a novel finished in 2025.

Plays – In 2017 a play Ann Mary wrote in 2015 with a local amateur group in mind, was staged in a different theatre in Lauzun, Lot et Garonne. ‟One of These Days” is a comedy suitable for older actors with several small character parts, with a theme of drug trafficking in an old people’s home. 

A second play ‟Gloria, Alleluia” concerning a robot has still to find a host theatre.  It has a smaller cast of characters than ‘One of These Days’ and is a comedy which comments on the evolving use of robots in private life, raising issues of legal responsibility and control. 


In 2007 Ann Mary wrote a memoir of the life of a half-Inuit, half-French lady living in the locality in France.  She was born in 1924 and had left the Arctic part of Quebec definitively at the age of 8 when she accompanied her father retiring home to France and lost contact with her mother and family.  Ann Mary conducted interviews with her on her life story because it was frozen in time and through her own contacts in the Arctic found Suzy over 100 relatives whom she contacted and later managed to visit. She was a local celebrity in the newspapers when she returned. Ann Mary wrote 'Suzy, An Inuit childhood' for the family in Europe and North America in both French and English.  Inuktitut proved to be too expensive for translation. 


In 2024 Ann Mary won a presigious award from the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, UK, on the occasion of their 130th. anniversary when they asked for a biography of someone born within the last 130 years.  She wrote about Lotte Stam Beese, the first woman architecture student of the Bauhaus, and went to collect her first prize, an engraved glass book, from Baroness Floella Benjamin at a lunch held in the House of Lords on the first of May.   https://www.connexionfrance.com/magazine/british-writer-pursues-award-winning-career-in-rural-france/674190