So who’s Sydney Jamesson? Seldom does a writer appear out of the mist, fully formed and equipped to introduce the world to their ‘perfect’ prose. More often than not it has taken years and, in the case of Sydney Jamesson, decades to come to the point where she can say: “I’m ready. This is it, I’m done!” Now is that time. She has always scribbled things down; in her home is one enormous waste paper basket full of discarded phrases, opening lines and pieces of dialogue that have hit her like lightening in the middle of the night or whilst parked up at a set of traffic lights. She has worked in Insurance, Fashion and in advertising as a Copywriter and Commercial Journalist and loved every minute of it. For the past 15 years she has been an English Teacher. But, for as long as she can remember, she has lived with The Story of Us in her head. The fact Elizabeth Parker is an English teacher should come as no surprise: novelists write, initially, about what they know … Yet, she confesses, Elizabeth is not her but rather that young, sensitive and naïve woman we all were or still are. So that’s her, furiously typing away until the early hours, creating an epic tale that covers an 18 month period; taking three novels to unveil the intricacies of a 21st century fairy tale.
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What now - Rihanna
Stronger - Will Young
Until You - Shane Ward
Love to Love you Baby - Donna Summer
Lovesong - Adele
Badfinger - Day after Day
At Last - Eva Cassidy
Tonight - John Legend
Blackbird - Paul McCartney
Lego House - Ed Sheeran
Lights - Ellie Golding
Naughty Girl - Beyoncé
You’re All I Have - Snow Patrol
Say Yes! - Snow Patrol
Locked Out of Heaven - Bruno Mars
Devotion - Kele
Diamonds - Rihanna
Because you Loved Me - Celine Dionne
Clouds - Newton Faulkner
Grow Old With Me -Tom Odell
Firework - Katy Perry
Another Love - Tom Odell
Right Thing to Do - Carly Simon
Small Blue Thing - Suzanne Vega
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