My name is PHYLLIS BURTOn and I am married with three grown-up children and eight grandchildren. I live amongst the beautiful Surrey hills in Southern England, which have given me the inspiration to write: I love putting my thoughts and those of my characters down on paper, in the hope that my readers will learn to love them as much as I do. I have an insatiable appetite for reading and tend to panic if I can't find a new book to read. After attending a Creative Writing course, I started to write short stories. Two of which were short-listed in competitions, and one was br more...