How do you describe who you are? I find it impossible, for we are all so many things. I have been a marketing executive working for a large multi-national company, and run my own business as a landscape gardener. I re-trained to become a Pilates instructor and also took a diploma in travel writing at the London School of Journalism so that I could write travel articles for magazines.
Some of the best years of my life were spent living on a small-holding in Wales, but I gave it all up for an even better life living on a boat. Somehow I seem to have reached the slightly terrifying age of 65 but I am now happier than I have ever been.
The one passion that has been a constant throughout my life has been writing and so perhaps that is who I am at heart- a writer. If someone had told my younger self that one day I would have published a series of books, and actually had some modest success with them, I would have never believed them. But that is one of the great joys of life – you never know what’s around the corner and you never know what you can do until you try.
The Olivia Rose Diaries 