Lorna Beedham has had a love of poetry since being read A.A. Milne’s Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young by her father when she was a young child. Her home had collections of classic poems she could dip into at her leisure. At Junior School she had an amazing teacher, Mr Journeaux, who would cover her class when her class teacher was away and who would read poetry to the class with such intonation that Lorna was spellbound. Matilda, The Pobble Who Had No Toes were two favourites.
Her own writing of poetry really began at the loss of her mother-in-law and the writing of a poem that was used in her funeral service. That led to the writing of poems for people when they lost someone significant.
During the Covid lockdown period Lorna began to write a variety of poems exploring different themes but all obviously Christian in nature and she began to wonder if she had the skills and capacity to write a complete book. So, in 2023, as she was recovering from an operation she decided to have a go and see if she had a book within her and then ascertain whether it was publishable.