In her own words:

I was born in 1948 at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, before it went back to being a stately home full of vintage cars after the war. My father was principal bass at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. When I was young he would learn new roles in our little semi-detached house, thundering the orchestral parts on our upright piano and roaring the vocal in his deep bass voice. Our neighbours thanked us when my parents moved the piano upstairs and away from the partition wall.

I went to a girls' grammar school and found myself studying physics. Thus I ended up as a hospital physicist at Kent and Canterbury hospital without knowing quite how I got there. After I married I moved onto primary school teaching - another random decision but a good one this time. I was surprised to find that I enjoyed teaching and particularly liked covering all subjects.

After I had my own children I moved into special needs teaching of children with statements of special educational needs in ordinary schools and then, for the last twenty years, to teaching children with severe learning difficulties - my first and most enduring fascination.

Before university I worked in virus research for the Medical Research Council and it's partly this work that has contributed to my second novel, The Stangreen Experiment - a scientific thriller.

My first novel, Going Astray, is a piece of Christian fiction that sprang from my confusion at university over baptism with the holy spirit, tongues, healing, prophecy etc. I think my novel can help those who want to go deeper with the Holy Spirit but are put off by peripheral things that could be sorted out with a bit of sensitivity - or a bit of courage and confidence in their own faith. It's an entertaining and interesting story with elements of a thriller. In real life, there are people who don't understand one another within the church, even when both parties are within the charismatic church and this is explored in Going Astray.

I have had a few short stories and articles published over the last few years. Now I've retired I have time to devote to writing more constantly than family and work commitments have allowed previously. My husband, David and I live a mainly peaceful life in a Norfolk Broadland village on the river Bure. We have two grown up daughters and two grandchildren.

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