The Pumilio Child

Judy McInerney has lived and worked in London for most of her professional life. Living in the Middle East, she managed to get lost in the desert, and to live through a military coup. After teaching in Abu Dhabi and starting her own business in Turkey, she returned to London and completed a creative writing course at Goldsmiths. Writing for food and travel guides has enabled her to justify travelling and eating out far too often.As a frequent traveller to China over the last 30 years she has seen the country undergo seismic changes, from the times of Mao jackets and vast shoals of bicycles meandering along every hutong, to the present day, where there are over 200 million cars in China, and Beijing is far bigger than Belgium. She still travels in China each year to keep in close touch with family there. She also has a longstanding love affair with Italy, particularly the Renaissance cities of the north. Mantua is an undiscovered gem, both magical and macabre.