Helen is a Yorkshire lass born and bred. She has enjoyed extensive travelling and worked abroad in Switzerland and Australia and as an artist painted with fellow artists in Switzerland, France, Germany, and the United States. She has had three careers and worked as a nurse, a countryside ranger, and a lecturer at a college and is now revelling in retirement. She is a proud mum and grandma and has loved reading to her own children when young and now in turn to her beloved grandchildren and is a great reader herself. Retirement and Covid lockdown has enabled her to find space and time for new challenges, one of these being to write and illustrate her own children's books.