The book was to be first of a trilogy, and she was writing a massively researched book on the Goddess at the time of her death – which was of course a dreadful shock, still painful.

Thank you for bringing the book back into people’s minds – she was way ahead of her time, and also very brilliant.

It warmed my heart – and Tansy’s – to see your deep understanding of Meggie’s Journeys, and your focus on the importance of “the vision of the Otherworld and its realisation within ourselves”

I loved that you called her “a radical dreamer” – she was an outstanding thinker and it would be so great if she could be remembered more.

You said: “It’s to be hoped that more about her life and her other writing will emerge” and I join you in that hope – many of us remember her well, and her two children especially: they were 16 and 19 when their mother was taken from them – as you can imagine it was an appalling thing to experience for them both.

Her daughter Tansy D’Ambrosio is a superb writer and a poet, and her son Nico inherited her love of dance and is an award winning dancer – now teaching too.

Thank you thank for your article – if you can think of other ways to take this forward, or other people to contact in relation to it please let me know.

Julie

PS I’ve often wondered about the relation between Meggie’s Journeys and Outlander