Liz Harris's Road Back I'm delighted to welcome Liz Harris to my blog today.  With law and English degrees under her arm and experience of living in California and teaching teenagers in the UK, Liz started writing. She  belongs to the Romantic Novelists' Association , The Historical Novel Society and is a member of the Oxford Writers' Group, where she has contributed to their fourth anthology of short stories. Her debut novel, The Road Back , was published in September. How did you start writing? I have always loved writing essays, tasks given at school, letters to friends, but it never occurred to me to write a novel until my sons were aged 2 and 3, and so in bed at a fairly early hour, and my husband, a head teacher at the time, was frequently out in the evenings. Since there was a limit to how many letters I wanted to write in an evening, I decided that it might be fun to write a novel. And it was. I received a lot of encouragement for that first attempt, but couldn't follow through the advice I was given as the demands of the family took over.  Years later, when I once again had some free time, I remembered the thrill I'd felt when I first put my finger to the key and begun to create a world that hadn't existed until that moment, and I put my finger to the key again ... You and I met through the