I've been telling stories through photography all of my life, so the segue into writing fiction felt quite natural although it was not on my agenda.  The Bridge Club is based on the real life story of my own Bridge Club - ten of us in our sixties and good friends for almost 50 years. Women's friendship is an important theme in my work and so is travel. I first fell in love with France in 1967 as a backpacking 20-something. For the past 15 years my husband and I have lived for extended periods in the south of France and that is what influenced The Promise of Provence.