Performed by Val Cole. February 2017 Winning Novel Reading. Get to know the writer: What is your novel about? A group of almost-strangers is brought together for a week-long cruise, as an experiment orchestrated by Gerald Clayton and his mistress Veronica. A trained hypnotherapist, Veronica hypnotises former friends and lovers of Gerald into not recognising… Continue reading Prologue Reading: VERONICA’S PAPERS by ANTHONY COLIN WRIGHT