Leela Dutt

I've loved travelling since I lived in Nigeria and Kenya with our small children. I guess I've always been something of an outsider, growing up in Golders Green with a kindly Indian father and a loving but strict Danish mother. I've lived nearly all my adult life in the same house in Cardiff, married to the philosopher Robin Attfield; we have seven incredible grandchildren, of whom six survive, and one granddaughter. Robin and I are both Quakers.

After history at Oxford I was briefly a teacher, a shop assistant and a journalist. I then took a degree in computing and set up and managed a database about housing research for Cardiff University before joining the Big Issue Cymru as a proof-reader.. My previous published works, all paperbacks, are available on Amazon, with details on my website attfieldduttbooks.co.uk and my blog http://leeladutt.wordpress.com. They include an affectionate collection of short stories about modern Quakers entitled Kingfisher Blue.

I enjoy writing about the people and places that I encounter, often not entirely seriously.

My latest collection of short stories 2022 FRESH BEGINNINGS is published by Bridge House and available on Amazon.

I currently have a contract to re-write an earlier novel ONLY A SIGNAL SHOWN.