The mask revealed - julia brannan

Julia has been a voracious reader since childhood, using books to escape the miseries of a turbulent adolescence.

After leaving university with a degree in English Language and Literature, she spent her twenties trying to be a sensible and responsible person, even going so far as to work for the Civil Service.

The book escape came in very useful there too.

And then she gave up trying to conform and resolved to spend the rest of her life living as she wanted to, not as others would like her to.

She has since had a variety of jobs, including telesales, teaching and gilding and is currently a transcriber, copy editor and proofreader.

In her spare time she is still a voracious reader, and enjoys keeping fit and travelling the world.

Life hasnt always been good, but it has rarely been boring.

She lives in rural Wales with her cat Constantine, and her wonderful partner sensibly lives four miles away in the next village.

Now she has decided that rather than just escape into other peoples books, she would actually quite like to create some of her own, in the hopes that people will enjoy reading them as much as she does writing them.