We had a most welcome visitor at the writers’ workshop this evening – Alice Jolly, a former member, who now lives back in the UK. Already an accomplished novelist, and having taken time out to try her hand at writing plays, Alice has just finished a third novel and is now polishing up the ms for publication. Alice is also a teacher of creative writing at Oxford University and we were all struck by her easy ability to critique perceptively and constructively. The success of several members who have recently left for other countries – Alice and Leila Rasheed back to the UK, Jeremy Duns to Sweden, makes me wonder whether a possible key to literary success might not be a change of scenery…