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Charlotte Betts

Charlotte Betts began a career as a dress designer back in the late sixties, moving to London to become another cog in the frenetic world of the fashion industry. After the birth of her daughter she moved to the country to have more babies, bake bread and grow vegetables. 

 After her husband followed his star and sailed away to Brazil, Charlotte returned to college, supporting herself and her three children through a variety of part-time jobs including cooking business lunches, being an artist’s model and teaching evening classes. Ten year later she married again, acquired two more children and set up a business designing hotel interiors. She wrote a regular interior design column for The Maidenhead Advertiser until she relocated home and business to Newbury in 2003. 

 Always a bookworm, Charlotte discovered her passion for writing after the children had grown up and left her in peace. She compulsively eavesdrops on interesting conversations and makes notes on scraps of paper, which she stores in her handbag until there is sufficient material for the next novel or short story. She is currently working on her sixth novel. Other interests include keeping chickens, renovating old houses, walking and daydreaming. 

  Charlotte can be e-mailed on: charlottebetts@btconnect.com