![]() ![]() ![]() My work as a diplomat took me from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine. After reading English at Cambridge, I decided to find out as much as I could about the wider world so joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland. I grew up on the edge of Epping Forest and was that dreamy kind of child who was always writing stories. I then joined Oxfam as a lobbyist on conflict issues, campaigning at the UN and with governments to lessen the impact of My journey to becoming an author has been a roundabout one, taking in many other careers. On leaving Poland, I exchanged diplomacy for academia and took a doctorate in the literature of the English Romantic Period at Oxford. ![]() My journey to becoming an author has been a roundabout one, taking in many other careers. ![]()
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