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COOK, RICHARD
R D Cook was a founding member of staff at Brockwood Park School in Hampshire. He then trained as a therapist and developed and managed a range of intensive programmes for serious offenders with the Probation Service. He also worked as supervisor of counselling and trainer with several Westminster Pastoral Foundation affiliated services, and was a freelance groupwork trainer and part-time university lecturer. He and his wife, a painter and gardener, live on a smallholding in North Pembrokeshire. They have one daughter. Richard is a Member of Academi.Photograph copyrighted to Ian Jebbett
Review:
With respect to Between Two Seas (Seren, 2008):
“…Out of the grain of Cornish rock, sea-winds and the fret of troubled lives, Richard Cook conjures his two characters, roots them in a landscape of subtle suggestion, casts them over a shimmering mist of unresolved sexuality – a small pearl of imaginative fiction that gleams in the mind long after its last page has been turned…”
Jim Perrin
Selected Publications:
Between Two Seas (Seren, 2008)