Jodi Picoult has inspired me with her issue-driven writing. I love humJodi Picoult has inspired me with her issue-driven writing. I love human drama, and encounter many different situations in my life as a doctor. I like to wrestle with issues and look at them from all sides; the ways that they affect all the players in one particular drama and how they deal with them. Other authors who have inspired me are Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Lee and Alan Paton...more
I was born and raised in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and from earliest childhood had a great love of reading and also of writing my own stories. I also enjoyed the dramatic arts and qualified with a diploma in Speech and Drama in 1976. I attended the University of the Witwatersrand where I studied Medicine and qualified as a medical doctor in 1984. Since then I have practiced medicine in urban and rural settings and currently have my own practice in Somerset West. Through the years I have continued writing, mainly scripts for musical productions for schools and youth groups. My husband, Roy, is also a doctor and I have three adult children, two sons and a daughter. As my children have grown and left home, I have had more time to indulge myI was born and raised in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and from earliest childhood had a great love of reading and also of writing my own stories. I also enjoyed the dramatic arts and qualified with a diploma in Speech and Drama in 1976. I attended the University of the Witwatersrand where I studied Medicine and qualified as a medical doctor in 1984. Since then I have practiced medicine in urban and rural settings and currently have my own practice in Somerset West. Through the years I have continued writing, mainly scripts for musical productions for schools and youth groups. My husband, Roy, is also a doctor and I have three adult children, two sons and a daughter. As my children have grown and left home, I have had more time to indulge my passion for writing. My first novel, 'The Reluctant Cuckoo', was published in 2016 and my second, 'Miles to Go', in 2018...more