Autor/-in: Rica Newbery

Rica Newbery is a retired psychiatrist living in Bristol with her husband and beloved elkhound, not too far from their two children and families, who visit often. After she retired, she did an OU course in Creative Writing and wrote her first novel: Reluctant Courage, inspired by her mother's childhood experience of Nazi occupation in Oslo. Her fascination for psychiatry began in childhood, influenced by her aunt and uncle, who suffered bipolar illness, and later inspired by RD Laing, who wrote The Divided Self.