About the Author

The author practices medicine for living and today works as a consultant in occupational health in her home town Turku in south western Finland. She gets her inspiration to write from books, the seaside (especially the archipelago of Turku), the forests and the fellow human beings. She was born in Rauma and at the age of sixteen got a scholarship to study at Atlantic College in Wales. She returned to study in Turku but she still keeps contact with her college friends all over the world. which is now so much easier than in the college years in the 70´s. The novel Tom, Maiden of St. Donat´s is the author´s first book.