CR Spencer

I’ve been writing all my life mostly technical reports on education. Fortunately, I worked with some excellent and knowledgeable writers who were quick to correct any errors, in the nicest possible way, of course. I always wanted to write fiction as an avid reader myself. Sitting on airplanes or in an airport lounge wondering when that flight will ever come, I read a variety of books. The advent of the electronic reader meant that I was never short of something to read on a long flight.

It was here that I read some stunning fiction and, I’m sorry to say, some pretty awful stuff. This gave me the impetus to write my own novels.

I grew up in the north of England near to Liverpool but most of my life has been in London and latterly Germany where I spent ten years and now the beautiful south of France where I live and write and maintain an unruly garden....

For my work in education I travelled the world. Dagmar Johnson was conceived on on my travels sitting in airports and on planes.

Dagmar’s character is a combination of many of the fiesty women I have known in my life although she is really quite soft and vulnerable behind her foul mouth.