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Proving
perseverance pays off
The write stuff
Having spent 20 years working in conference production Laura Marshall decided in 2015 it was time to fulfi l a lifetime’s ambition to write a novel and just two years later, her fi rst novel, Friend Request, was published, selling more than 250,000 copies in the UK to date and becoming a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller in paperback, and kindle number one bestseller. “I’ve always wanted to be a writer, for as long as I can remember,” recalls Laura, who lives in Tunbridge Wells with her husband and two children. “I saw some of my books from primary school recently and a surprising number of my stories had scary men with knives or people breaking into houses in the middle of the night – I was obviously destined to become a crime writer! It’s defi nitely a dream job and I feel very lucky. It has completely changed my life in that I’m fortunate enough to be writing for a living now. I didn’t hate my old job as a conference producer, but I was never passionate about it. I almost can’t believe that I now make my living by doing my very favourite thing in the world.” • Laura’s second novel, Three Little Lies, will be published on 28th June.
From cash to cooking Worthing bank manager and father- of-two, Kenny Tutt was crowned MasterChef Champion 2018, becoming the 14th amateur cook to claim the title. Facing competition from 55 other determined contestants, he went through seven gruelling weeks of culinary challenges and a close fi nal cook-off. Having been persuaded to apply for the show by his wife Lucy, Kenny has been catapulted straight into his dream job.
“Cooking for Ashley Palmer-Watts, working in a professional kitchen and visiting Peru was everything and more; money can’t buy the experiences that MasterChef gave me. Cooking has always been a sort of release for me, but the competition woke up the creative side of my brain and changed me as a person. The pressure was intense but the teamwork was amazing, and to have my own restaurant would be a dream.”
Music to his ears
Grammy award-winning conductor and music director Richard Cooke was appointed to one of his ‘dream jobs’ at the Royal Choral Society in 1995 and regularly appears with them in concerts around the country, including the annual performance of Handel’s Messiah and Christmas concert, both at the Royal Albert Hall. He is also Music Director of Canterbury Choral Society, where he lives, and runs a successful local youth choir. A chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral and Choral
Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, Richard was always destined to pursue a career in classical music, saying: “The musical aspect of my job – rehearsing and performing – is utterly rewarding. To direct an orchestra of over 70 musicians with a choir of up to 200 singers could be terrifying, but it’s a lot of fun.” Career highlights include conducting Bryn
Terfel at the Royal Albert Hall’s War Requiem in 2014 to commemorate the centenary of the First World War – and rubbing shoulders with Whitney Houston on the red carpet at the Grammy’s in New York.
© KevinDay
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