“So do all that live to see such times, but it’s not for us to decide. All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us” – J. R. R. Tolkien

Novels have an incredible power to stoke the creative juices and teach us what’s important. Even as a child, I always listened to audiobooks. This was convenient because my family moved around a lot, living in countries such as Wales, Dubai, Singapore and Thailand – all before I had turned fifteen, might I add. It was during the time my family was in the UK that I started listening to longer audiobooks. We stayed in London but the idea was to shift down to Wales and we did this in stages, Mum and I taking things down with us in the car whenever we visited what I deemed ‘the wet country.’