I was born in South London and lived there, except for short detours to Surrey and Bedfordshire, until moving to Peterborough seven years ago. Three children from my first marriage, and two boys coming into my life thirty-one years ago when I married my second husband, have produced many weddings and seven grandchildren. This, with all the accompanying ups and downs, has been drawn on for the realism of family life depicted in my work.

Starting creative (very) writing as a nine-year old in journals, I wrote whenever I could, but since retiring have been able to concentrate fully on my creativity. Also, many short stories have been written as a diversion from my more serious novel writing.  At the moment I am completing a fourth novel.

Twenty or so years, first as a successful newspaper photographer and then as a freelance, has provided me with a great insight into real life dramas. This in its turn has helped to give my writing the realistic edge that I try to achieve. The publication of ‘The Last Resort’, my first novel, has become an enormous achievement and hopefully its success will enable me to publish, the second and third of my three completed works.

The second novel - ‘Rabbits on the Lawn’ is a sensitive story of how a much younger sister helps her brain damaged brother to reach his potential in life, and the third - 'Ruby's Misfits', is a saga which starts with seventeen year old Ruby devastated, just about to start her working life, because she is told that Connie and Jack are not her parents.  Despite more terrible family secrets being discovered, she develops into an unselfish young woman who coping stoically, always puts her family first. Interspersed throughout the novel are chapters in flash-back, seen through her childish eyes, going back in time, throughout the novel, ever nearer to when her natural mother was killed.
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©2010 Pam Fish.