I've been writing on and off since childhood. Horse stories were my favourite subject during summer holidays spent avoiding my annoying brother. I'd return home with the car half a ton heavier with all the filled up notepads! Who knows what happened to them, lost in the big relocation move, maybe lurking in someone's loft.
I had wanted to be a journalist when I finished school and wrote all the time.
My parents moved us, when I was 14, in a continental relocation from the island of Jersey, a British Crown independent island, to the South of France. Initially the Cote d'Azur more...