The Pineapple Tart
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- A beautiful book, beautifully written. RTE's Open House
- Africa Expat Wives Club
- Alix Beech
- AMIdesigns
- Be a Fun Mum
- BookEnds Literary Agency
- Cassidy Sez...
- Chic Mama
- Claire Allan - Author
- Codlinsandcream2
- Debs Riccio
- Goddess of Blah
- GrammarGrandma
- Heatseeker Reviews
- Irish Writers' Centre
- Life Of A Flibbertigibbet
- Make Do Style
- Northern Ireland Bushcraft Association
- Strictly Writing
- SUSIE of ARABIA
- The Battlefield of Love
- The Fat Builder
- The Hiking Files
- The Wife of bold
- The Worst Review Ever
- The Write Power
- Tote Bags 'n' Blogs
- Turning Pages
- Turquoise Gates
- Welcome to Talksville - Population, One
- What Kate Did
Gender | Female |
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Occupation | Novelist |
Introduction | I was reared in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It was a bitter, abnormal childhood and I spent most of it with my nose in Enid Blyton wishing I had a wishing chair to fly away to exotic locations where no-one cared if I was Catholic or Protestant. Be careful of what you wish for: when I grew up my first proper job was based in the Middle East. I flew longhaul as an airstewardess for an international Arab airline; the ultimate exotic escape, don't you think? Now I write escapist novels. Already I've had seven published. They are called The Pineapple Tart, A Soft Touch, The Dolly Holiday, Kissing the Frog, Cinderella's Sister, Enchanting Alice and The Revenge of Lady Muck |
Interests | Riding, shopping in Oxfam, Northern Ireland, Type 1 diabetes |
Favorite Movies | Atonement, Betty Blue, The Enchanted April, Gladiator, Jacob's Ladder, Jezebel, The Last King of Scotland, The Painted Veil, The Railway Children, Slumdog Millionaire |
Favorite Music | Abba, Bach, Beethoven, James Blunt, Chris de Burgh, Chopin, Bob Dylan, Elgar, Nirvana, The Killers, Snow Patrol, Thin Lizzy |
Favorite Books | Isabel Allende, E.F. Benson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dickens, Georgette Heyer, Molly Keane, C.S. Lewis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nancy Mitford, L.M Montgomery, E. Nesbit, Somerville and Ross, Winifred Watson |
Your bow is not broken but you've run out of arrows. How can you fake being a bard?
Get a life. Then there's no need for faking.