As an army daughter, Philippa Annett lived in fourteen houses in eight countries before she was sixteen. Bound tightly to her family as they travelled the world, schooled initially by her mother and then at military forces’ schools, her inspiration to write was developed early by all that she experienced along the way.
Philippa comes from a family of chroniclers and her belief in the value of family stories provides the rich foundations for Heavy Luggage, as it did for her debut novel, The Diamond Fund.
Philippa and her husband live in Somerset. They have three children and eight grandchildren.
“My brother Mark and I wake in the night to the sound of gunfire... The open window, with its mosquito-netting casement, allows us to hear male voices speaking outside, hushed and urgent. Then another volley of shots and bullets spray the side of the house. There is a soft thud against the wall ab...