Let me introduce myself
I actually hate writing about myself, I suppose it's because I was brought up to be modest in an almost self denigrating way such were the ideals of my mother. My father left my upbringing to her and she was my biggest influence. At nineteen I escaped into a fortunate marriage, fortunate because against the odds it worked, lasted and opened my horizons. Since then I have lived over most of the UK, Germany, France and Saudi Arabia it all depended on where my husband Mike was working. Do not imagine for one minute that I was the obedient wife dragged from pillar to post. I was and am an equal partner in our marriage not working but enjoying the experiance of living where ever we were.
This is where the inspiration for my books developed, from the places we lived and the people we met. I would not claim that any of my characters are facsimiles of people we knew rather they are an amalgam of many but typical of the area from which they are drawn.
So far I have written five books the fifth about to be published as the last book in a trilogy call the Evergreen series which follows the life of an unwanted child from birth to retirement. After living with her through three books I just couldn't end the last book with her death.
The second book I wrote 'Seducing Judi' followed the fall of a married young woman of Irish extraction seduced by an ex-soldier with brain damage. He becomes obsessed with making her suffer for all the wrongs he believes he suffered in Ireland at the hands of the IRA.
My first book was written in Saudi Arabia and is a romance of the Romeo and Juliet genre called 'Inshallah'. A Saudi girl and an English boy fall in love across the divide of their cultural and religious differances which lead to extream situations when their romance is discovered by her brother. For anyone who knows the Saudi culture will realize the danger that this situation put the girl in.
Perhapes in a later blog we will investigate these books further. For now I will close as this is my first blog with the hope you enjoyed it and will come back again.Inshallah-Evergreen Girl-Evergreen Woman-Seducing Judi
This is where the inspiration for my books developed, from the places we lived and the people we met. I would not claim that any of my characters are facsimiles of people we knew rather they are an amalgam of many but typical of the area from which they are drawn.
So far I have written five books the fifth about to be published as the last book in a trilogy call the Evergreen series which follows the life of an unwanted child from birth to retirement. After living with her through three books I just couldn't end the last book with her death.
The second book I wrote 'Seducing Judi' followed the fall of a married young woman of Irish extraction seduced by an ex-soldier with brain damage. He becomes obsessed with making her suffer for all the wrongs he believes he suffered in Ireland at the hands of the IRA.
My first book was written in Saudi Arabia and is a romance of the Romeo and Juliet genre called 'Inshallah'. A Saudi girl and an English boy fall in love across the divide of their cultural and religious differances which lead to extream situations when their romance is discovered by her brother. For anyone who knows the Saudi culture will realize the danger that this situation put the girl in.
Perhapes in a later blog we will investigate these books further. For now I will close as this is my first blog with the hope you enjoyed it and will come back again.Inshallah-Evergreen Girl-Evergreen Woman-Seducing Judi
Published on November 20, 2013 02:18
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A bit different this Christmas (Part 1)
I remember when I was living in Saudi Arabia with my husband (an essential accessory out there) we were eating in a small cafe a little way in the dessert outside a small town. I cannot remember what
I remember when I was living in Saudi Arabia with my husband (an essential accessory out there) we were eating in a small cafe a little way in the dessert outside a small town. I cannot remember what we were eating, if I ever knew, but it was a number of local dishes selected by a student of my husbands, we were his guests that night. It was just before Christmas and my husband said to me “It would be fun to come here for Christmas dinner.”
“Oh yes” said the student Mohammed “I could collect you in my car”
From that moment on there was no getting out of it and so it came to pass that we had the most unusual Arabic Christmas dinner. It is certainly a unique meal to have when you celebrate Christ’s birth and you have no idea what you are eating or how it was cooked, and there was a lot of it. After we had finished and suffered no ill effects, Mohammed took us home.
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“Oh yes” said the student Mohammed “I could collect you in my car”
From that moment on there was no getting out of it and so it came to pass that we had the most unusual Arabic Christmas dinner. It is certainly a unique meal to have when you celebrate Christ’s birth and you have no idea what you are eating or how it was cooked, and there was a lot of it. After we had finished and suffered no ill effects, Mohammed took us home.
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