Phyllida Shrimpton is a full-time mother of a teenage daughter and currently lives in Essex with her husband, their rescued Newfoundland and small badly behaved Jack Russell.She achieved a postgraduate degree in Human Resource Management, but soon jumped ship to work with teenagers, including students with Asperger's syndrome, on an Essex-based agricultural college farm before moving to live temporarily in the Netherlands. She is also an artist. Sunflowers in February is her first novel.

Powerful, the imagery beautiful, the characters relatable

Phyllida Shrimpton is a full-time mother of a teenage daughter and currently lives in Essex with her husband, their rescued Newfoundland and small badly behaved Jack Russell.She achieved a postgraduate degree in Human Resource Management, but soon jumped ship to work with teenagers, including students with Asperger's syndrome, on an Essex-based agricultural college farm before moving to live temporarily in the Netherlands. She is also an artist. Sunflowers in February is her first novel.

Powerful, the imagery beautiful, the characters relatable