This is her story. It is the courageous story of learning to live with a crippling illness - made even more remarkable because Marie Joseph went on to become one of our most popular contemporary novelists, the bestselling author of Maggie Craig and A Leaf In The Wind. But above all, this is a story of inspiring strength - an adventure story of the spirit - funny, vivid and intensely moving.
Marie Joseph was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. She began to write at the age of 40, and after a very successful career as a short story writer went on to write novels.
No less than five of her Lancashire based novels have been short-listed for the Romantic Novelist's Association Award during the past few years, and in 1983, Gemini Girls was runner-up.
She now lives in Middlesex with her husband, and enjoys visits from her eight lively grandchildren.