About Me

My name is Margaret Rose, named after the princess by my four elder brothers. That was in 1948, not too long after the second world war and my parents had lived through that and the first one.

They were born to poor families in the East End of London and my mother had some colourful tales to tell. Those tales were enough to get the imagination of a storyteller pumping. I have always made up stories, ever since I can remember, and I love to imagine a character or two, put them onto a page and see where they go.

My first book was based on those tales my mother used to tell me, about growing up in one room with a brother and sisters and a single mother, my grandfather having peed off and left them to get on with it. My grandmother was a Romany and she used to take in laundry, as well as scrubbing doorsteps and making lace, in order to keep them all fed. No help in those days, no aid save the workhouse and it seemed that anything was better than that.

I have three grown up children, three grandchildren (two of whom are adult) and two great grandsons.