Shirley Oldridge

Born and raised in Yorkshire, in the North of England. I entered into the gaming industry, and left the country in the mid-eighties to work in a Bahamas casino, where I met my future ex-husband, and moved to the US, in 1990.

As the mother of two young children, I became appalled with the stories of violence against women and children that were daily newspaper headlines, and flashed nightly on TV screens. These stories had such a sickening effect on me that I would imagine all the grisly things I could personally do to the perpetrators. I knew I could not possibly be alone in my thoughts. Other people had to feel the same way as I did. What would happen if a group of like-minded individuals with thoughts similar to my own actually got together? I pondered this question, and from it came the idea to write a novel, hence, The Support Group was created.