Breathing Underwater (24 page)

A room of my own

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My attic is the place where I can escape to write. It is quiet at the top of the house, and from the skylight windows I can see hills and fields and trees and plenty of sky. It is full of books, some on shelves, others stacked high on the floor. There are piles of paper, boxes of old manuscripts, and photos, post­cards, other things that help me to write whatever story I am currently working on. It is very untidy but I know where everything is! A small carved mouse (Toby's mouse from
The Children of Green Knowe
) perches close to my laptop.

Also by Julia Green

 

Bringing the Summer

Drawing with Light

Blue Moon

Baby Blue

Hunter's Heart

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, Berlin, New York and Sydney

 

First published in Great Britain in 2009 by

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP

 

This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

 

Text copyright © Julia Green 2009

Illustrations copyright © Susan Green 2009

 

The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted

 

Lines from the poem ‘Fern Hill' by Dylan Thomas are from
The Poems

by Dylan Thomas, published by J M Dent. Reproduced by permission of

David Higham Associates.

 

Line from the poem ‘Not Waving But Drowning' by Stevie Smith is from

Selected Poems
by Stevie Smith, published by Penguin Books Ltd, 1978.

Reproduced by permission of the Estate of James MacGibbon.

 

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A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

 

ISBN 9781408816042

 

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