Jill Lanchbery

Born in Essex, Jill Lanchbery grew up in Central Africa and has lived in many different countries including Nigeria, Indonesia and Northern Ireland and currently in Spain. Her peripatetic lifestyle is reflected in her books, and has been the inspiration for her locations.

It was the death of her second daughter Alison in 1988 that made her re-evaluate her life and was the catalyst for her writing. Most notably her memoir Memory of a Daughter.

She has written three contemporary novels, A Bucket of Ashes, Griefs and Fears and The Other Side of Silence and is currently working on a fourth.

Jill has had articles and short stories published and been placed in several international short story competitions. She is an active member of Stanza Alacant and is published in their anthologies Red Rock Dreaming and For the Sake of the Forest.