Here you will find a collection of News, Muse News (things that inspire my writing) and Reviews.
Between The Shadow And The Soul published on September 18th 2014 by Silverwood Press and Amazon as an e-book and paper back.. ISBN 978-1-78132-225-3 (paperback), 978-1-78132-226-0 (ebook) RRP £9.99 (paperback), £2.99 (ebook) Download an information sheet: Between the Shadow and the...
read moreReminding Flori of Matt ‘Stay with me till Dawn’ is Flori’s inspiration and strength.
Some non-fiction papers my Marguerite Valentine: 1994 ‘The Social Worker as Bad Object’ Brit. Journal of Social Work. Vol.24 [Winner of Trainee Psychotherapist Award] 1996 ‘The Abuse of Power within the Analytic Setting’ Brit. .Journal of Psychotherapy. Vol.13. 1996 ‘Wild Strawberries’ A Film Review BJP. 1999 ‘Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America’ A Review. BJP. Vol.15 1999 ”The Cash Nexus: or how the therapeutic fee is a form of communication’. BJP Vol.15....
read moreLike or not like the film, doesn’t really cut the mustard. It’s fascinating, appalling, obscene, decadent. Three hours of sex, drugs and rock’n roll, a savage critique of traders and their mentality. A study in alienation and pyschopathy, it’s autobiographical. What makes such people tick? Money, power, possessions. By the end of the film I was glued to the seat, waiting for his downfall. I was pleased by the end result: he was well and truly screwed. A dog eat dog scenario but like Dracula such men rise again to continue...
read moreAnother film by McQueen who doesn’t shy away from the difficult areas of life. He chooses actors who have the ability to translate his passion for the truth into gut wrenching characterisation. The captured slave, the brutal sadistic slave master, the traumatised young black woman broken by life. McQueen’s genius is to portray the endurance of the human spirit without sentiment or superficiality. The film ranks in terms of his courage to confront the politics of oppression with the portrayal of Bobby Sands’s death in ‘Hunger’;...
read moreA man in an existential crisis brilliantly acted by Tom Hardy. He drives alone late at night along the motorway, contemplating where his loyalties and duties lie. At the same time he imagines himself speaking with his dead father who persecuted and criticised him, and through internal dialogue and actual conversations over the phone , Locke struggles to become true to himself without losing his personal integrity. The film is beautifully shot and atmospheric, intense, clever, gripping and highly recommended.
read moreBefore I was a novelist I worked in Child Protection and as a pyschotherapst. Writing was involved in both the study and practice of this work, though it was very different from my work as a novelist. Here’s some examples of my academic writing. With the frequent references to films and care work, you can see how my career and my artistic inclinations were always close. 2012 ‘Time, Space and Memory in ‘Last Year in Marienbad’ International Journal of Psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 2010 ‘Editorial Introduction...
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Marguerite Valentine is a former child protection specialist now writing psychological thrillers. Her debut novel is 'Between The Shadow And The Soul'. 
