Rachel joyce biography

Background Influences

I was born in 1962 in South East London and brought up on a small sixties urban housing estate with my two younger sisters, Amy and Emily.

We read Beatrix Potter, Noel Streatfeild, Joan Aiken and made up a lot of games about imaginary countries and animals who wore bonnets.

Rachel joyce biography

I have written since I was a child. It was my haven, just as reading was my haven. I wrote my autobiography when I was eight because I was worried my writing talents had gone unnoticed. (I was right.

Author rachel joyce biography

They had.) When I was fourteen, I sent off a story secretly to a publisher under a pseudonym because I thought that might give me a better chance. I called myself Mary Thornton, which might sound like a box of chocolates, but was at the time a bow to Jane Eyre.

A Journey to Professional Writing

After studying English at Bristol University, I had a brief period where I worked unsuccessfully as a nanny.

( I was a nice nanny, but I was not a tidy one, and my cooking was exc