title: Little Voices of the Pears: Poems
author:  Herbert Morris 
description: Drowning Of Immoral Women<br> The Ferry<br> For The Dark Ones<br> French<br> The Home<br> Latin<br> Lincoln's Hat<br> Olana, Summer, 1872<br> Reading To The Children<br> The Wait<br> William James In Brazil<br> -- <i>Table of Poems from <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/poemfinder.html/${0}">Poem Finder&#174;</a></i>
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  **ROSE ALEXANDER**
  
  
  has had more careers than is probably strictly necessary, including TV
  producer/director making programmes for all the major broadcasters, freelance
  feature writer for publications including _The Guardian_ and secondary school
  English teacher, not forgetting cocktail waitress, melon picker and interior
  designer.
  
  
  Writing a novel is, however predictable the line seems, the realization of
  Rose’s childhood dream and the result of finally finding ‘a voice’. The
  triumph is that the voice was heard above the racket created by her three
  children plus rescue cat (tabby white, since you ask).
  
  
  Follow her on twitter at @RoseA_writer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Rose Alexander:
  
  
  Garden of Stars
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _I dreamt this book up whilst on playground duty one sunny October day in
  2016, in the heart of urban London, gazing up at a tree dripping with ripe
  conference pears that I had never noticed before. Why a pear tree led to a
  book, I don’t really know, but that is ofte