My Own Private Ida Show or Ida Shakespeer

In many of the Gold Adornments stories I was developing ideas and characters for a longer work of fiction – working title My Own Private Ida Show. The novel is complete, I submitted it along with a reflective commentary for my PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Essex, and it is now published in the university repository. After much reworking it became a (grand)mother-daughter relationship set in coastal Essex.