‘It was not until my father died in 2000, following a lengthy illness, that I decided to try to make a go of my writing and achieve something with it’, says Maritta Jayne. ‘My childhood was unremarkable – I was born at the end of 1961 and brought up in the South Wales valleys, the eldest of three children – and I was never academically minded at school, but always loved to write.
‘Since 2000, I have completed two courses with the Writers Bureau. The first in 2007 when I completed the ‘Comprehensive Writing Course’. ‘Almost three years ago, I decided to write my first book and, at that point, had a bit of a rude awakening.