I first visited France as a 17 year old, hitchhiking down the west coast, across the Pyrénées and around the Mediterranean coast. The following year I returned with three school friends and drove 3000kms of French country roads in a Morris Thousand Traveller.   I have never forgotten the hospitality of the French people we met on our travels, the glories of the open road and the fabulous scenery. Later in life I had the opportunity to live in France and to write about its diverse culture, history and places.
 
 I grew up in India, Pakistan, Iran, Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Italy and England. I divide my time these days between Wiltshire, England and South West France.  

I am currently working on a novel which follows the fortunes of two families in rural France whose lives are entwined by fateful personal relationships and by a disputed ownership of the grand manoir.