I began writing because I could not imagine any other
profession. My mother, a journalist, was forever at
the typewriter or on the phone, and I thought in
the natural progression of things I would do the same …more
Appearances
July 4 Oxfam, Reading Market Place 8 High Street, Reading, RG1 2EA 0118 939 3868 10:30 am oxfam.org.uk…more
Latest book - The Man From Saigon "Leimbach does an impressive job of evoking the frenetic chaos of Saigon and the claustrophobia and suffocating humidity of the dense jungle, while her story has a vivid immediacy as it flashes backwards and forwards in a deliberately disorienting fashion. The result is intense and gripping..." DAILY MAIL
Here’s a great excuse for not getting any work done: foreign body in ear. When I went to the doctor this morning to tell him my suspicions regarding a foreign body, I asked him if he knew the novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which started, of course, with the gruesome extraction of a foreign body from a man’s ear.…more
"Leimbach does an impressive job of evoking the frenetic chaos of Saigon and the claustrophobia and suffocating humidity of the dense jungle, while her story has a vivid immediacy as it flashes backwards and forwards in a deliberately disorienting fashion. The result is intense and gripping..."
