OUR AUTHORS
Tara Blake
The author, Tara Blake, is writing as the psychotherapist, Hannah Kublitz. Hannah Kublitz was born in North London in 1950, the second of two children of German-Jewish parents who immigrated to the UK in 1937. Her mother was a pianist and her father ran a Whiskey import business. Her older brother, Martin, was a nurse. She attended Henrietta Barnet School for Girls and went on to read History of Art at Bristol University, graduating with upper second-class honours. While at university, Kublitz became engaged to the Barrister David Bergmann, then a law student, but the relationship ended before they were married. After ten years as a Buyer for her father’s company, Kublitz began training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Lincoln Centre, qualifying in 1992. She went on to become a Consultant in the NHS, a position from which she retired in March 2022, and continues to run a small private practice from her home in South London. She lives with her partner, Mo Badawi, and their dog, a chow-chow called Malty.