Teddy Goldstein's fascination with the written word was never far from the surface. After Oxford, his career was largely spent in areas where he could express his creativity: Educational publishing, creating training materials, and scripting films. But it was not until later in his life that he really found his voice. At seventy, he took a series of courses at Birkbeck College and then went on to do a degree course in Creative Writing where he won a short story prize as a part of the Middlesex University Literary Festival. As a result, he gained enough confidence to start 'writing through the