Where My Heart was Briefly

It was to Italy we journeyed after the sale of my beloved Orchards – our time there depicted in ‘The Haphazard Gardener’ (2012) and in my first collection of poems ‘Where My Heart Is’ (2017). The area we settle in was beautiful. Lake Como could be glimpsed from the patio, and accessed within a five-minute walk to the nearest beach. This collection of poetry ‘Where My Heart was Briefly’ was created from the extensive journals I kept during this period. It is now seven years since we returned to the UK, but very briefly my heart was where my husband and daughter were … in Italy.