Heather Mary Pelmear lived in Bristol until she married and moved to The Midlands aged twenty-two where she raised a family of three and taught children with special needs. During the 1970s, she took up the post of Head of Infants at a school in Plymouth for children with learning difficulties. She has lived for the past thirty-three years in Cornwall. Her early attempts at writing stories began when she was about eight years old, but they never progressed much further than “Once upon a time”.
During World War Two, a young girl was seen around the Stoke Bishop area of Bristol riding her bike or a pony; climbing trees; building dens, playing with the ‘gang’ in Blaise Castle Woods, and a lot more besides! This seemingly carefree life had its darker side as the storm clouds of war thicke...