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Born in wartime Wales, I was brought up in
London, E17, and now live in Essex, where my husband and I are able
to combine the outdoor pleasures of Epping Forest with visiting the
London art galleries and theatres. Friends and family (two children,
their spouses and three gorgeous grandchildren) are very important
to us, as are our garden and allotment. Besides writing I love to
paint and am currently lining the walls of our house with my
pictures. My other interests - travel, reading, cooking, music and
the rest - are to be found in the books I have written.
After graduating (Newcastle) and obtaining a teaching certificate
(Leicester), I embarked on a career teaching children of primary
age, both mainstream and, latterly, special needs. When my own
children left home I decided to keep a lifelong promise to myself
and become a writer, beginning with short stories and articles. It
wasn’t long before I gave up teaching in order to devote myself to
writing my first novel.
Honno, the Welsh Women’s publishing company, who
included a short story of mine in their anthology Luminous and
Forlorn, published
Lottie, in 1997. In the same year my second novel, Someone to Watch
Over Me was published by Piatkus, followed by its sequel, Wrong Way
Up the Slide. The third in the Potter family series, A Lazy Eye, was
published in 2000. Honno published Skin Deep, a thriller set in
modern times, in November 2004. I have just completed two further
contemporary novels and am now working on my first crime novel under
the auspices of the New Writing Partnership’s ‘Escalator’ Scheme.
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