At the end of my garden there is an exquisite silver birch tree. It graces every season of the year and tells every movement of the air with slender branches. Its ghostly trunk is stronger than it looks. This tree means so much to me. That last sentence is perfectly understandable: it’s about the tree’s […]
Maggie Wadey
Maggie Wadey is a writer of novels and TV screenplays. Her most recent book is a memoir of her mother and Ireland, The English Daughter (Sandstone Press, 2016). She also writes poetry and last October had the astonishing experience of having a poem of mine read out in Parliament Square as part of a huge Extinction Rebellion demonstration. Maggie lives with her husband, an actor, in Hackney, London.