My Story

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I have had a love of books and reading since I was a very young child. I count myself lucky to be able to remember visiting the local library as a toddler, when it was in a tiny shop, in our village.

     Born on the last day of 1961, it was almost four years before I started infant school, when morning break comprised of a small bottle of milk, complete with cream on the top and a dinky straw. To be milk monitor for the day, was an achievement in itself, and when in junior school, to be clock monitor was the highlight of the week.

     Our lives are full of small milestones - that often seem huge at the time and remain with us all our life. I believe we should all try to live life to the full. As the daughter of a miner, I was taught that it isn't what you own or covet that makes you successful, but who you are, and what you do with your life. How you live it.

     Oftentimes, things go wrong. Life is not easy. It is a challenge, and a good test of our strength, and resilience, and however we adapt to a negative experience or trauma, is what makes us who we are. In the end, I believe it makes us stronger.

     I have faced many challenges in my life, more so, in the last sixteen years. Losing loved ones at any age is difficult, but they live on in our hearts, as long as we think about them.

     Illness too, is often a big challenge in our lives, whether in our own life, or in someone close to us. It is since facing two major illnesses, Pneumococcal Septicaemia Meningitis, and Bowel Cancer, that I came to writing. I am a survivor, and for that I am eternally grateful.

     Writing is not something that happened overnight. I had to learn how to arrange my thoughts on paper and build enough stamina and confidence to keep going. I love my characters. They are not all good, or pure of heart, but they inhabit my worlds, and if you give them a chance, they will take you on journeys I hope you will enjoy.

  

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