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Mary Sue Gee, soprano, operates an active studio in Los Osos and also teaches private voice for Cuesta College. She was educated in her home state of Kentucky, where she received her Bachelor of Music Education, her Master of Arts in Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and her Master of Music in Vocal Performance degrees. After teaching public school music, she married and moved to the central coast of California where she has remained for the past 26 years. Mary Sue is well known for her portrayals of the Mozart heroines, Pamina, Constanza, Foirdiligi, and Donna Anna with Pacific Repertory Opera along with many appearances in the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Roger Wagner Chorale, and the Cuesta Master Chorale. An active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, she has served as President of the Central Coast Chapter, as well as Governor of the Southern California Association for the organization.

Review: Using a narrative that moves from one character to another Sue Gee has created a novel in which you care about the characters so much that you continue to think about them after you have put the book down. Her writing is very poignant e– she captures feelings and emotions succinctly o– reading about Georgia’s loneliness is quite painful at times and yet this story is not without it’s moments of gentle humour and recognisable family dynamics. I have often shelved The Mysteries of Glass (also by Sue Gee) at work and every time I do it catches my eye ,– next time I see it I will take it home to read.

Sue Gee is the author of eight previous novels, including Letters From Prague, serialised on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and The Hours of the Night which received wide critical acclaim and was the controversial winner of the 1997 Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Her play, Ancient and Modern, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004, with Juliet Stevenson in the lead role. She is currently reading for a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has been awarded a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship.

Great topic - thank you E and thank you to Sue Gee for a great starting post.I dont really know, on reflection what o'creative writinga' means. Surely, when we write anything we are creating something? A letter, a summons, a shopping list. Maybe it should be called r'making things up and writing them down