Larissa Matharu

Sadly the Astronomer and Artist Professor John Bastin FRAS, whose watercolour 'Larissa and Theology' (painted in September 1995), is the back cover of Haunting Poems, died two days after the book was published. I knew him as the distinguished watercolour artist and I am very honoured he chose me to be one of his models.

I am very grateful to the actor and author Hugh Fraser for his review:

Haunting Indeed

Larissa Matharu's heartfelt evocations of her attempts to understand, assimilate and come to terms with the sexual abuse she suffered as a child, together with her accounts in prose of the cold and distant treatment she received from her family, make for a most moving and salutary read. When this last is balanced by her account of what happened to her father both as a child and an adult, the book becomes even more powerfully disturbing. This is truly enthralling collection of poems and prose.