Getting to know author Christine Hamill

After university Christine wrote poetry, but she never published any. She had various jobs; she worked in the Arts in Bristol; she managed an art gallery, worked on an arts magazine, and wrote a grammar for foreign learners for IBM.

In 1996, working for a College of Education, she began writing poetry more seriously, and wrote some stories. She was accepted for an MA in Writing, but discovering she was pregnant, felt unable to go.

“I had a full-time job and my relationship was on the rocks,” she says.