J.T. Fernie

J.T. Fernie is the pen name of Moira Macfarlane, British

Consul in Florence for eight years and briefly Acting Director

of the British Institute of Florence. Her early love of telling

stories led her first into teaching, then as an HMI with the

former Scottish Office Education Department. Her love of

travel and literature enlivened the stories she told to children

and friends, allowing free rein to her imagination—a freedom

denied in writing educational reports for publication.

Moira returned to Scotland when she retired and, encouraged

by her children and happily distracted by her grandchildren,

began writing fiction. The Istanbul Ring is her first novel.