Juliet Greenwood

Juliet is the author of ‘Eden’s Garden’, published by Honno Press and chosen by the Welsh Books Council as Welsh Book of the Month for May 2012. The Kindle edition is currently in the Amazon Kindle summer promotion.

Juliet’s new novel will be published by Honno in February 2014. ‘We That Are Left’ honours the courage and sacrifice of solider and civilian in the First World War. Set in Cornwall, Anglesey and France, it also captures the ways in which lives were changed in the aftermath: some destroyed, but some, with love and courage, rebuilt anew.

Juliet lives in a traditional Welsh cottage halfway between the romantic Isle of Anglesey and the beautiful mountains and ruined castles of Snowdonia.

After studying English at Lancaster University and King’s College, London, Juliet worked in a variety of jobs, from running a craft stall at Covent Garden Market to teaching English.

Juliet began writing seriously after a severe viral illness left her with debilitating ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for years. Juliet always says that M.E. was the worst, and the best, thing that ever happened to her. On one hand, it sent her from being able to walk up mountains with ease to struggling to do the simplest of everyday tasks for more than a few minutes at a time. But on the other, it forced her to re-evaluate her life and her priorities. And it made her a writer.

Juliet is now well and back to dog walking and working on her beloved garden.

As well as novels under her own name, Juliet writes stories and serials for magazines as ‘Heather Pardoe’.

When not writing, Juliet works on local oral history projects, helping older people tell their stories before they are lost forever.