Cathy lives and works in Cornwall, where she lectured at a local college, in Child Care and Education for ten years before returning to work in Children’s Services. Now retired she is the author of ‘Out of the Quill Box, Came Secrets of a Family I had Never Known’.

Cathy has been writing for about five years and written two non-fictions ‘White Horses and Sunbeams’ and ‘Matt and Pandora’, both about family life in Cornwall. She has also written articles for an online foster care magazine.
Cathy also worked with the fostering team and was a council foster carer for several years. She is only to aware of the importance of information for children and young people, to know their past, their heritage, and their culture