Helena

For the first eight years of her life Helena lived on a houseboat moored in the countryside near Kinver in Worcestershire. She was a pupil at Elmfield, the Waldorf school in Stourbridge, for all her schooling. She trained as an actress at the Drama Centre London and then worked in fringe and community theatre.

Helena co-wrote a play called Nice Girls Don’t which was performed at a London Pub Theatre, Goldsmith’s College and The Actors Centre, London. She currently lives in Normandy where she and her husband run a small B&B.

Helena’s father used to keep bees. After he had extracted the honey from the combs many dead bees were to be found scattered around the kitchen. Helena was terrified of bees. It seems strange, even to her, that she should write a story where bees play an important and positive role.