Living right by the sea is a special joy and I walk every day with my border collie, meeting friends and other dogs! Mostly my longer walks I do alone with just the dogs and it is when some of my best ideas are generated.

 

I love being outdoors – useful because we have very large gardens to tend.

As a manic reader I confess to a very large personal library, much of which is history, biography, classic novels and some modern writers. I am a lifelong vegetarian and am fervently opposed to cruelty in all forms.

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In the 1970s, I spent much time in Nigeria with my first husband and was resident there during the 1976 coup and murder of the country’s leader Murtala Muhammed. I left the country in 1977.

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I am an emotional, tactile person and as a former teacher am always anxious to “talk and inform”, hence my love for writing. My novels are gentle, romantic stories, second chance love in many cases.

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One of my favourite walks is at Hayle Towans, but when visiting family in the Midlands I favour Highgate Common, Kinver, Clent and the Malvern Hills.

I have been writing verse for many years and most particularly children’s verse.

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I retired from my post as head of careers in a tertiary college, in 1994, after damaging my spine in a fall. This injury stopped my running regrettably, but I had managed the 1990 London Marathon.

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I have recently published the first of my nine books which relate to Kaskin Tinderfell, an elfin man “who in his velvety soft green dress, Is the size of a bottle, or maybe less.”

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I have also published two thirds of my Family Affairs trilogy, with the final novel in the pipeline, as well as four stand alone romantic novels.  

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Much of my inspiration comes from talking to others, listening and understanding others’ dilemmas. Added to this my own life experiences, TV extra work, chauffeuring, teaching, learning to fly in Africa, owning a care home in Shropshire, and so many encounters. My greatest weakness is talking!

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