Corinna Turner has been writing since she was fourteen and likes strong protagonists with plenty of integrity. She has an MA in English from Oxford University, but has foolishly gone on to work with both children and animals! Juggling work with the disabled and being a midwife to sheep, she spends as much time as she can in a little hut at the bottom of the garden, writing.
She is a Catholic Christian with roots in the Methodist and Anglican churches. A keen cinema-goer, she lives in the UK with her Giant African Land Snail, Peter, who has a six inch long shell and an even larger foot!
When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
Reading! Actually, mostly I spend the time when I'm not writing working! I work with children with special needs on school transport, that's my day job. I've had the one little boy for four years now, which is lovely. When not working I'm reading. Or at the cinema or watching films at home. Or saying the divine office/praying/attending Mass. Or having a coffee and cake with someone...
Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Not specifically, because the very first would have been something from junior school. I remember various childhood stories, but I definitely remember the 'short' story I wrote when I was 14. It went on for 37 pages in my homework book and the teacher gave up marking it after about page 8. I promptly set to and wrote it up into a full length novel. The novel was awful. No one is allowed to see it. Ever!
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