On 16 March 2020 my father died aged 102. Shortly beforehand I wrote for him and my mother a song which would have been sung at his funeral had it not been cancelled due to Coronavirus Covid 19. Many of the musicians who would have attended recorded their parts in individual isolation and my son Ben, who arranged the music, brought them all together into a beautiful scattered chamber choir of connection:

Anne Atkins is the author of several novels, most recently An Elegant Solution, a literary thriller set in Cambridge, with a dashing Aspergic hero.

Previous novels are The Lost Child, On Our Own and A Fine and Private Place, all featuring a child’s viewpoint.

She has also written several books of non-fiction. Split Image: Male and Female After God's Likeness, is a layperson’s guide to biblical teaching about the sexes. Child-Rearing for Fun: Trust Your Instincts and Enjoy Your Children gives parents the confidence to know they're getting it right, ideas to help them do it even better, and an awful lot of laughs. Agony Atkins is a compilation of her agony aunt columns in the Daily Telegraph and contains much wisdom and lots more laughs.

She is a regular contributor to Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, as well as many other radio and television programmes and most national newspapers.