Michael Goodall's Biography
About the Author
Michael Goodall was born near Portsmouth and from childhood has always had a powerful bond with the sea.Married with one daughter, he worked in journalism and, for many years, in fine and contemporary art. He now lives and writes in Dorset. A pioneer 'house-dad' in the 1980's he wrote a dozen novels, subsequently discarded, as "my apprenticeship, finding my own voice," before completing The Spindrifter.
For him writing is like method acting behind closed doors - "If I don't believe in what I am doing, and experience it in some way, I can't expect readers to. It wouldn't be genuine, authentic. You have to have something to say and a way of saying it that is absolutely one's own - and that's the hard part."
The Spindrifter is a novel with an intriguing, complex and strong-minded heroine. It is about self-determination and freedom, about attachment to place and about deceit and devastatingly deceptive appearances. Not least, it is about the sea and dreams.