Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Author
Location	Dulverton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Introduction	After 5 careers I am now an author- I write inspiring redemptive books. My first Sasha & Olga, the amazing story of my totally bonkers family, (published by Lothian 2006). My second;Butterflies & Demons;historical fiction about the juxtaposition of the treatment at the hands of the British Empire, of the Adelaide Aborigines in the 1840s and Russian refugees in the 1950s. This book has now been long-listed for the Mslexia 2017 novel competition. I wrote the bio of the Russian violinist Viktoria Mullova.(Robson 2012) And believe it or not, Science Fiction. 'Russian Roulette 2020' appears in Shine (Solaris 2010) Now I have written 'Sexy at Seventy' about how I am surviving old age.
Interests	Writing,family,home,sewing, grandchildren,partying, flirting outrageously, dressing up, relationships, meditating, growing veg, eating fab produce,spring water ,windmills, solar cells
Favorite movies	Shine, Reds, Love Actually,American Beauty, Gandhi, Silver Linings Playbook
Favorite music	Mozart, Deep Dive Corps, Cafe Del Mar, Joan Sutherland, Nana Mouskouri, Viktoria Mullova
Favorite books	Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamzov, Cloud Atlas, Random Acts of Heroic Love, Little Paris Bookshop, The 40 Rules of Love. Anything by George Eliot, Carol Shields, Murakami, Robin Hobbs, Patrick Rothfuss

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Will 'Butterflies & Demons' be accepted by the boss of Wakefield Press?