Judith Barrow … author

Author Judith Barrow grew up in a small village in Saddleworth, at the foot of the Pennines in North-West England, UK. In 1978 she moved with her husband, David, and their three children to Pembrokeshire in West Wales, where she is a creative writing tutor.

Judith’s books , Pattern of Shadows, Changing Patterns and the newly released Living in the Shadows, trace the journey of a family, from a Lancashire POW camp through to the 1960s. She is currently writing the the prequel to the Pattern series, Foreshadowing.

My standing brief on Routine Matters is to write about the various routines and rituals that writers employ when plying their trade. And so Judith very kindly told me all about hers.

My routine? Well, I’ve always got up around half five in the morning, so it’s a nettle tea and down to writing. I make myself wait…