Wendy Orr

I’ve wanted to be a writer for so long that sometimes it still takes me by surprise to realise that I am.

I was brought up with my mother reading bedtime stories every night and my father telling long involved fables about our dog’s Great Great Great Grandfather, who had travelled wherever we went and invented everything that we happened to see along the way. Travelling seems to have been a constant in my childhood, as Dad was in the Canadian air force and we not only moved frequently, but explored widely from each successive home.

If there was one significant moment, though, in my decision to write, it would be the night shortly...

Read the full biography of Wendy Orr