In our Meaning of Life series, teacher and author Wendy Erskine speaks to Laura McDaid about the overall creative process, both in storytelling and within the classroom, her debut novel, and some small-scale regrets

Wendy Erskine

Wendy Erskine

Belfast author and English teacher Wendy Erskine was the first person in her family to go to university. So after graduating with a first-class honours degree with awards for her academic work, any outsider looking in on her life might have expected her to be flying high on the wings of youthful success.

But this was one of the most difficult times in her life.