Gender	Female
Occupation	Writer
Location	United Kingdom
Introduction	I grew up in a small Lancashire village. The library was my treasure house and the people in the books were my friends. Even now, a book is an alternative world for me, and writing the story is absolutely the cherry on the cake - except when I can't see what the characters are going to do next.
Interests	reading, writing, using different languages, travelling, gardening, beadwork, lounging around in Turkish kiosks,
Favorite movies	Green Card, Best Friends, The Mask of Zorro, Sense and Sensibility, The Emerald Forest, Cyrano, St Trinians,
Favorite music	Milos Karadaglic, Juan Diego Florez, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Katherine Jenkins, Tarkan, Queen, Bryn Terfel,
Favorite books	all of Jane Austen - each time I read one of her novels I find something else to enjoy, Candide, Mr Impossible, Devil's Cub, The Grand Sophy, travel books, Middlemarch, Lorna Doone- THE greatest romantic story in my opinion

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