I watched the Scottish news at lunch time as usual and was quite amazed to see that there was a report about D.E. Stevenson on it. Apparently two new manuscripts had been found in her attic by her grandaughters. The cynic in me thought Oh aye, sure! but it’s true.

Shirley Neilson of Greyladies publisher got a phone call from one of D.E.’s grandaughters about it and the upshot is that The Fair Miss Fortune and Emily Dennistoun have been published by them. The first one was rejected by a publisher in 1938 and they think that Emily Dennistoun was written sometime in the 1920s. It’ll be very interesting to find out what they’re like.

So Judith, Reader in the Wilderness – I know that your mother is a big fan and I hope you can get a hold of the books for her somehow, for some reason D.E. is much better known in America now than she is at home. I’m sure the libraries there will be ordering them in.

I still haven’t managed to pay a visit to the town of Moffat yet, where she is buried.