Tramps with bad feet, a sheep rustler, a busker invited to dinner; a weird monster who devours a nasty husband and a child who learns from a visit to the fun fair; limericks and blank verse; it is all here.

Esmé's stories lead you into wild tangles of your own jungle of prejudice, finally cutting through with her devastating final analysis. She writes about the people society forgets.
Lynda Strudwick, University of Surrey

Esmé was dear to all of us in our endeavours towards creative writing. She was a rare person - an original, a teacher and an open-learner in the art of writing. Like Orwell she was kind and clear-sighted in a style common to all her work.
Brian Crossley, poet and Esmé's former creative writing tutor