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Published: 3 July 2008

Lucy Heathman

Lucky Seahorse is Lucy’s late starter

THE LUCKY SEAHORSE
By Lucy Heathman.
Pen Press
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FIRST time authors are common enough in north London, but Lucy Heathman is rather unusual.
Lucy, 55, will be at the Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town Road on Saturday, signing copies of her first book, The Lucky Seahorse.
This lively and lovable collection of stories for children owes its existence to a frozen shoulder that forced Lucy into a spell of unemployment a few years ago.“I hadn’t written anything since I was a child,” she says. “I always liked writing at school.”
She confesses to being unschooled; she comes from an ordinary working-class family and her life has consisted of a string of ordinary jobs (“worst luck”, she says). But once her old interest in writing was revived she was unstoppable.
The only family tradition of writing was her father, Ken Holmes’ diary – written as a 15-year-old in Archway during the Blitz – which was taken up by the Imperial War Museum a few years ago.

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