From a very early age, I have always wanted to write, but was ordered to "get a proper job." Journalists were required to drink their targets under the table to get a story I was told, and alcohol doesn't agree with me! So I dutifully trained as a teacher, and have taught in seven different countries - from primary school infants to lecturing adults in Technical College. After suffering a mentally abusive childhood, I had little defence against the Walter Mitty aspirations of the man I married. We moved from country to country, seven in total, usually one step ahead of the creditors. Besides teaching, I had a variety of jobs including breeding Cairn Terriers, running the worst riding school in the world, teaching English, working in a supermarket, digging up dead Romans, as a chambermaid and washer-up in a hotel, radio announcer, disk jockey and news reader.
I was abandoned in the African bush with a seven week old baby, and after being kicked out of Libya, another disastrous project in Botswana, and being abandoned for the second time and left on a boat moored in Durban harbour, I found the courage to leave him and began to write and write and write. I graduated from radio, to television and then ran my own video production company, winning over 20 awards along the way.
I left South Africa in 2008 with my second husband to live in Spain and writing books while pretending be be retired. I am about to publish my eight book, the fourth book in my series about Amie the young girl I took from the comfort of her English home and dumped into a civil war in Africa. (Amie has yet to forgive me for this). Three of my other books are memoirs and the other is a comedy.
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Who wanted to hurt her and cause a mental breakdown? Why? Who would benefit?
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A young English girl goes to live in Africa and gets caught up in a civil war.
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A fast paced, action adventure book set in Africa
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Amie has to organise the auction for mineral rights deep into the African savannah
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In one night Amie loses everything and is forced to work for those who will kill her if she does not obey them.
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Amie's spy mission goes horribly wrong and she is stranded in the bush with 4 young children to protect from an international sex trade with a horrifying twist.
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More adventures from behind the TV cameras, usually hilarious, sometimes sad.
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Lucinda 'fell' into writing for a career, from radio to television, but all is not as it seems on the other side of the camera.
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Biography of travel to 8 countries to escape the childhood of mental abuse.
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