Film of the day: 乳房よ永遠なれ (FOREVER A WOMAN, dir Kinuyo Tanaka, 1955) Seldom has a classic three-handkerchief weepie been so daringly modern while avoiding all traps of excess and decorum, creating a truthful portrait of female resilience and defiance that transcends the confines of its genre. #melodrama #illness #weepie #JapaneseCinema #KinuyoTanaka

me #editing! (If my hair looks a bit less than perfectly soigne, it's cos editing involves a certain amount of tearing your hair out, or at least fiddling with it while you ponder.)

V pleased my latest #novel #AChildsGoodbye is in the Amazon UK #Kindle top 100 this morning. It's just 99p/99c at the mo: https://geni.us/B0BQ7P48B1social and is a big lush #weepie emotional drama #story of love and family and secrets - made my #editor cry! #book #bookstodon #fiction #writer #writerslife #author #alimercer