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Teresa Driscoll
Teresa Driscoll has been a writer and broadcaster for more than 20 years - 15 of them presenting the local TV news in the south west of England which makes her a familiar face on home turf. "Great sometimes…..not so good when you dash to the local shop for loo rolls, wearing no make-up and a cold sore! Now - that can surprise people."
Teresa says she always knew she wanted to write - starting her first novel in an exercise book at around the age of ten. " But the careers adviser at school pointed out that I might also like to eat and buy shoes so she steered me diplomatically towards journalism which has meant glorious years of writing PLUS a salary cheque every month!"
Journalism has been great, Teresa says, but the desire to write fiction never went away and now that her two sons are getting bigger and her freelance life less hectic, she has time to "scratch the itch". She is a regular contributor of short stories and features to women's magazines and has just completed her novel The Promise - the story of three women with an exceptional and uncomfortable bond from their childhood . She describes it as a book about "the power of true friendship and the danger of secrets……about children who know what makes their heart sing. And adults who forget the tune….."
Teresa's current work-in-progress is a novel which brings together three unlikely characters - a bag lady who knits, a runaway with a rare musical gift and a social worker with problems of her own.
Teresa lives in Devon with her husband, two sons ( and occasional mice in the loft)
