About

Throughout her life she has kept journals, written stories, poetry, lyrics and is now putting together an unusual memoir. Having grown up in underdeveloped countries, Somalia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cuba, her family helping communities to adapt their lives for survival, there is a plethora of material to draw from. Her mother’s ancestors came from Ireland in 1890s went to the outback in Australia, The Duracks the highly acclaimed book and movie Kings in Grass Castles won her cousin Mary Durack an OBE and a Dame-hood.

Presently she is researching her mother Marjorie Durack–Hill’s story, the working-title which is Persian Melon, and finishing her first Uplit novel What Lola Wants?

business

Her award-winning business Bo Bangles/ Bo Bangles Brides www.bobangles.co.uk  burgeoned after studying silversmithing at Sir John Cass in London, she wrote all PR and marketing for this highly successful jewellery business, famed for hand-twisted sterling silver hearts entwined with Swarovski crystals worn by presenters Kate Garraway, Clare Nasir, Penny Smith and loved by Craig Revel Horwood.