01
Beginnings
London
Born in London, Ros’s earliest geography begins in England before widening through study, family life and travel.
← A Thousand Helping HandsA writing life
The memoir in place
A writing life
across waters
Key West is the heart of the story, but not its border. These are the places that can be traced through Ros’s published biography and writing.
02
Student years
Cambridge
At Girton College she read History, training that remains visible in her attentiveness to memory, evidence and lives shaped by their moment.
03
A year in France
Aix-en-Provence
A family year in southern France began a long imaginative relationship with French landscapes, language and light.
In the work: Becoming George Sand · Indigo Sky at Noon
04
From 1982
Edinburgh
Ros moved to Edinburgh in 1982 and spent twelve years in Scotland, finding a community of poets and continuing to write across forms.
In the work: Becoming George Sand · Elena, Leo, Rose
05
1988 to 1991
Morocco & Australia
Periods spent in Morocco and Australia broadened a writing life already moving between countries.
In the work: The House in Morocco
06
1992 onward
Key West
A rented apartment in 1992 marks the memoir’s first firmly dated Key West foothold. The island became home for more than thirty years: a place of friendship, literary community, storms, poems and return.
In the work: Light Over Islands · Windstorm and Flood · A Thousand Helping Hands
The continuing story
A Thousand Helping Hands
The forthcoming memoir gathers a life through place, friendship and artistic community. Its publication date remains to be announced.