Silver Springtime by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer

LOVECRAFT: A WRITER IN SEARCH OF A THEORY (1993-1994) was completed as a reseach project which replaced several subjects in my Master of Arts through the Univeristy of New South Wales. My Thesis entitled: THE LITERARY MANIFESTO OF H.P. Lovecraft, on whom I completed a Master’s project. Stephen King’s Danse Macabre led me to H.P. In search of more riveting reading, I discovered Stephen King and James Herbert. It was so amazing, I read it seven times in a row! Eventually, I discovered there was a whole series… I survived on this sort of fair until I was sixteen and read The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. I loved Enid Blyton, her Wishing Chair stories, Magic Faraway Tree stories, fairy-land and toy-land stories as well as the mysteries.Ī couple of years later, I discovered The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. The mystery story was so exciting, I finished it in one session and I was a fast reader from that moment onwards. Reading was a slow process until one birthday, I sat down with my gift, a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton.

Sometimes there was a fat cat on a mat or dog with a ball. I remember the struggle to learn to read – painfully stringing three letter words together – there was Sam and Pam and a ball. As a dark-haired, tanned little English girl (remember Britain was at one stage occupied by the Romans), I was very different and mercilessly teased. I grew up in the Barossa Valley, an area of South Australia predominantly settled by German immigrants.

Silver Springtime by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer