I was born and went to school in Cheshire. I took a 4 year honours degree, 2.1 in English Literature and Education, at Chester College (now the University of Chester). I moved to Cumbria in 1975 and since then I've lived up here with my husband in "a very small hamlet at the end of the world". We have a grown-up daughter and son, a much-loved granddaughter who succumbed to cancer shortly before her 6th birthday, and red-headed grandson with a permanent grin.
I've designed embroidery canvases, painted murals and built websites. For 14 years I made competition driving harness for horses and ponies, and farmed at Daw Bank. I was a regular contributor to Carriage Driving Magazine, wasa cartoonist and wrote for the pony magazine Going Native until its closure in 1995 and still contribute occasionally to its successor Native Pony.
Recently I've also been doing a good deal of editing and proofing work and the penny finally dropped that I could be doing this for my OWN books. So here we are.
I was born and went to school in Cheshire. I took a 4 year honours degree,
2.1 in English Literature and Education, at Chester College (now the University of Chester). I moved to Cumbria in 1975 and since then I've lived up here with my husband in "a very small hamlet at the end of the world". We have a grown-up daughter and son, a much-loved granddaughter who succumbed to cancer shortly before her 6th birthday, and red-headed grandson with a permanent grin.
I've designed embroidery canvases, painted murals and built websites. For 14 years I made competition driving harness for horses and ponies, and farmed at Daw Bank. I was a regular contributor to Carriage Driving Magazine, was a cartoonist and wrote for the pony magazine Going Native until its closure in 1995 and still contribute occasionally to its successor Native Pony.
I have had three books published by "proper" publishing houses, One Fell Swoop (now reprinted), Against the Odds (J A Allen) and Hoofprints in Eden (Hayloft).
Luke Casey and The Dales Diary interviewed me in 2007 about Hoofprints in Eden and an interview by Dylan Winter for BBC Radio 4's "Rare Steeds" is still available
here.
Recently I've also been doing a good deal of editing and proofing work and the penny finally dropped that I could be doing this for my OWN books. So here we are.