I am a Canadian writer with a British background and was married to a British lawyer and have two wonderful sons. I was raised by unorthodox, free thinking, grandparents from whose example I exerienced the liberty of an all embracing open mind. I shall not bore you with my credentials; it is enough to say that I was well educated in England and at college I won prizes for writing speeches, as well their delivery. May passion is the novel. I love bringing to life strong characters together with vivid descriptions of unusual people and places I have come to know, coupling them with meaningful dialogue as in my novel OF BONDS AND BONDAGE which is about relationsships, some very nasty, between those in the legal profession I grew up reading writers such as Maugham, Wilde, Dickens, Austen and Bronte, to name but a few. Today I enjoy authors whose work depicts the times we live in, be they of a legal profession, mystery or a good, strong, unusual love story that tears at your heart strings. I have been an actress all my life—wasn't it shakespeare who said 'all the world is a stage and we the players on it.'