I have always written. It was my first love at school. I wrote stories and little plays for drama club, until I discovered singing. Aged 14 I was cast in the role of Mrs Noye in Benjamin Britten’s children’s opera Noye’s Fludde. Blessed with a good natural voice I fell in love with classical music from that time on. I was fortunate to become an interpreter of all that wonderful repertoire: opera, oratorio, art song, and lighter songs, bringing life to the union of word and song through the incredible organ that is the human voice. But later, through having cancer, I found my writing inspiration again, expressing my joy of being alive. There is nothing like a crisis to open one up to self-expression. My first venture, back in 1990 was a collaboration with the composer Jonathan Dove, writing Three Healing Songs for a Conference on Holistic Therapies, which I sang and added to my concert repertoire. That was the beginning of my writing years….