Jennifer Munro

BIOGRAPHY - JENNIFER MUNRO

I was born in the tiny hamlet of Winteringham, Lincolnshire, UK. I grew up surrounded by love, fluffy bunnies, golden retrievers and ponies. My extended family were all close; in neighbouring villages, and life was very gentle and safe. Then my father, who longed for freedom from the restrictions of English life, moved us to South Africa. Finding that not quite wild enough for his taste, he moved us to Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe in the early seventies, at the beginning of the bush war.

I married too young, and went farming during the war. I must have inherited that wild streak! My two beautiful daughters were born and, after some very traumatic events, my husband and I moved our young family to South Africa.

From one jungle to another! I started an advertising agency, and made myself Creative Director; writing for television, adverts, brochures and websites. I was thrilled to have some of my creative stories published in a woman's magazine, Fair Lady. I guess, in the end I grew tired of all the excitement and longed for the safety of my island home.

I moved back to Britain in the late nineties, and started a marketing agency in Surrey that I then gave to my eldest daughter to allow me to concentrate on my first love: writing.

Motohuma the Firehead is my second complete novel, and I am about one third of the way through my third. All that wildness and freedom gave me some wonderful material for my books. A lifetime of stories at my fingertips!

I'm a lot quieter now. I have a cat and an apartment - no tangled wilderness to tame...but inside me, like a witchdoctor's cauldron, all the mad stories of Africa brew and bubble, and flow out of these fingers onto the keyboard for my own, and my readers' pleasure