Raymond Silverthorne

Raymond Silverthorne is somebody who knows first-hand that certain events can leave us feeling we have no control over the direction in which our lives are going, but at other times we make conscious and deliberate choices. The author of Sempre: Finding Home worked, lived in and loved London for nearly 40 years, but as 2010 came to an end, newly married he moved with his husband to a small village in Portugal, a country that at that time neither of them knew much about. The life Ray began living there contrasted greatly with the one he’d had in London, and inspired him to write, contrasting and comparing his birth home with the one of his heart.