I was born in England but grew up in Perth, Western Australia. In the sixties I, like so many other young Aussies, left on a ship for London. In the Swinging years I met and married my lovely journalist husband, Roger,  and moved to Paris, learned French and lots of other things and travelled round Europe in a Volkswagen beetle.

As a foreign correspondent for AFP and Reuters, Rog was posted to exotic locations and we lived in China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan in the eighties and nineties. During this time my two daughters, Jenny and Susie, were born and I taught English at the French School in Beijing, the British Council in Seoul and private languages schools in Japan.  Back in London I went back to school, doing a B.A. in Japanese at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a Master’s Degree at Kings College.

Roger and I now live half  in Perth and half in Singapore. It is in Singapore that I really found the freedom to pursue an old love and began to write. I love history, the history of people and places and Singapore is a very satisfying place to pursue that love.  But Perth is coming up fast too as I delve in the past of my home town.