Best Wishes, Sister B. started as a series of letters written on the early morning commuter train to London. I distinctly remember writing several of them whilst standing up or sitting on a First Capital Connect luggage rack. The comic struggles of the little convent in the fens were invented to entertain my husband as he recovered from a stroke. They drew on my experiences as a pupil at a convent in Belgium and, much later, teaching migrant workers in a vegetable packing station in the fens.I trained as a local newspaper reporter and only studied English Literature later, when my children were at school. I have since worked for the probation service and am now a teacher of English as a foreign language in Cambridge. I have always scribbled, but Best Wishes, Sister B. is my first published novel. I am hard at work on a sequel. I live in a village at the edge of the fens with my husband, some chickens, a dog, and the only characters in the novel taken from real life: the ducks, Hetty, Betty and Bill.