Margaret Grant

After Drama school in London, where she won the best actress award the year following Helen Mirren, Margaret chose to make drama teaching her career and wrote many customized plays for her comprehensive school pupils. But rural life beckoned and she and her husband decided to bring up their young family on the island of Anglesey in North Wales.

It was during her years there, living on the beautiful mountain of Mynydd Llwydiarth, that she became fascinated by its Druid past and began the research for her first novel, which she planned to write whenever time would afford.

She returned to teaching in the 1980’s but this time to a primary school, where she enjoyed writing stories for morning assembly and creating dance dramas. Since her days in teaching she has enjoyed researching the lives of the elderly and has been involved in a variety of voluntary work. This has included Reiki healing, which has given her rich insights into the work of a healer and empathy with the main character in her first novel, ‘Where Rowans Intertwine’.

Following a move to Sheffield, she concentrated on renovating an old farm worker’s cottage and writing the much-awaited novel.

She won a local writing competition for BBC Radio Sheffield: ‘My Journey to Faith – How I became a Bahá’í’ – a humble accolade, but encouraging.

Her first novel ‘Where Rowans Intertwine’, is complete and is available on Amazon as both an ebook and a glossy paperback. Her second novel is in stark contrast to the adult historical fiction and is a children's story about a cat who is dumped on the Yorkshire moors and his efforts to find a forever home. It is currently available as an ebook and now published in paperback format. Recently retired to Lincolnshire, she has the freedom to make writing a pure pleasure.