Françoise Fautrel

Francoise Fautrel was born in Paris.She spent the wars years in Normandy, where her Swiss mother fraternised with the Germans, causing the child much shame. After her mother's death when Francoise was nine years old she was put in a catholic orphanage; subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment she wrote an account of these hardships when she was about 11. These were destroyed when the nuns found them and had the effect of increasing her torment.

After the war Francoise went to Switzerland, but her mother's unsympathetic relatives could not accept her desire fo knowledge. At nearly 21, she escaped to England. Her mantra was "Work,work,Work", and after a difficult start, she was able to study and acquire respected professional qualifications. From the 60's onward she wrote and translated professional articles.

Her first book A CHILD OF SILENCE was written in 1953 and kept hidden for 40 years, eventually to be published in 1995. This work has been translated into French under the title of TAIS TOI...ET PRIE.

This and her second autobiographical account THE UNWISE MONKEY are both available on Amazon Kindle.