about ann kelley

Ann Kelley is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St Ives families and an audio book of cat stories.

She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightning strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.

Why did I write this book?
I didn't want to be where I was, literally on the edge of a remote cliff. I started the story as an antidote to the way I felt at the time - fearful, lonely. It started out as a cry for help. But then I began to see it as an opportunity to write a story even closer to my heart: the story of a chronically sick child who is living with humour and enthusiasm, her mind open to everything. I hope it's a story of how to live fully until you die.

Buy The Burying Beetle online now from the secure Luath Press website: www.luath.co.uk/acatalog/The_Burying_Beetle.html

The Burying Beetle by Ann Kelley will be available from May 2005, priced £9.99, from all good bookshops or online from www.luath.co.uk.

ISBN: 1 84282 099 0 PBK