Pond Lane and Paris - Softcover

Born in the Lake District, Susie Vereker has spent much of her life travelling round the world, first as an army officer's daughter then as a diplomat's wife. She worked in publishing in London, au paired in Germany, typed in Aden, taught English in Surrey, and raised her three sons in Australia, Greece, Thailand, Switzerland and France. In the nineties Susie lived in Paris when her late husband was British Ambassador to OECD. Widowed in 2001after a long happy marriage, she now lives in a Hampshire village that's been home - between postings abroad - for over twenty years. Caught between her conventional upbringing, the duties of a diplomatic wife and the aspirations of the modern woman, Susie has led something of a chameleon existence. In Australia she was a sportswoman and young mother, in Greece a welfare worker and dabbler in archaeology, in Thailand a fund-raiser, in Geneva a magazine editor/journalist, and in Paris she concentrated on art history and writing. This is her first published novel. Susie's life has been one of challenge and adaptation to different countries and customs, and this has been the inspiration for her first novel.

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