Meriel Brooke

I was born in Malaya, where my father was a rubber plantern. I was sent to boarding school in England at the age of three, shipped off to Canada and then to Australia during the war, before finishing my education in England. I trained at Barts as a nurse and entered the theatre eleven years later, acting for The RSC and The National Theatre. I have two amazing children from my first marriage to a medical student and have been happily married to my wonderful Roger for 36 years. He is an IT consultant, but we had a rare breeds farm here in Herefordshire for many years, before he went back to IT and I continued with my writing.