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Introducing: Yvonne Dykes
- 31st January 2018
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Yvonne Dykes is a writer of empathetic and insightful short stories – The View of the Garden in Summer, Something Understood and The Osprey at Dusk.
Brought up in London with eight siblings, Yvonne has been teaching for seventeen years and has recently completed a masters degree in Education. She wrote a draft for her first novel Brondesbury Villas in 2000 and self-published it in 2014 with Amazon Kindle. She has also finished her second novel – The Harbour Road. In 2015 Yvonne’s first short story A Death was included in City Lit’s Between the Lines anthology.
Yvonne is married and has two grown-up sons. She still lives in London where she enjoys gardening, collecting contemporary art and writing content for her blog, Shop Wear Live Design, where she advises shoppers on buying art and contemporary design products at discount prices.
A short Q&A with Yvonne Dykes can be seen below:
Q: What is the first book you remember reading, or being read to as a child?
A: Amazingly, I was never read to as a child. My parents were far too busy! Despite this, I was an early reader and read all of the C.S Lewis Narnia books before I was eight. I had to read them again much later to recognise the deeper meaning.
Q: Is there a book that you keep going back to and how many times have you read it?
A: Ryszard Kapuscinski’s The Shadow of the Sun (Penguin, 1998); I have read this at least five times.
Q: Who is your person of inspiration?
A: My English teacher at secondary school, Diane Neumann