WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR RURAL LIFE?

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Rachel is a fiction writer from Devon. 

 

She grew up in a rural community. She  spent a lot of her childhood looking after horses, riding on the Somerset levels, competing in gymkhanas and cleaning tack.  Her mother's mother was of gypsy lineage and her father's family included blacksmiths. ​

Rachel played bass guitar in an all girl punk band and worked in community theatre in her 20s and then with horses on Dartmoor. She has also worked on farms, including hill farming, relief milking and doing field work with a Shire horse called Meg for a farm-based charity. She spent some time living off grid on a mountain in Ireland before returning to Dartmoor, where she married a hill farmer and raised a family.

​In 2010, she trained as a copywriter. She did some subbing for Greenpeace, wrote the Green Page for Broad Sheep Magazine for several years, helped to promote a railway line and walking trail across Wales and wrote copy for the launch of a hydrogen fuel cell car.

Whilst writing The LONG ACRE and The REPORTER, she was carer for her mum, who has Alzheimer’s. She is currently working hard to finish the first draft of her third novel in the series.  

Order THE LONG ACRE OR THE REPORTER, HERE