Beverly Stark
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Beverly Stark enjoyed an itinerant childhood in Devon and the Far East. During the months spent at three boarding schools, she wrote stories to pass the time.
Arriving at Downing College, Cambridge to read English, she found it was described in the student ‘alternative’ prospectus as ‘Not a place where nice mothers send their daughters.’
After university, she suppressed her wish to be a writer and became a publisher instead, working in London, Devon and Bath.
Taking a career break to spend time with her two children, she began writing again. The discovery of war-time letters from her uncle and her father inspired her to write Strong for the Journey Home.
Spanning the years 1935-1945, the novel follows James Ainsley, a young infantry officer, from boyhood to the bleak battlefields of Italy.
Beverly lives in Bath, misses the sea and has a particular and enduring fondness for Test Match Special.