A Londoner originally, Isobel Blackthorn has chalked up over seventy addresses to date, in various locations in England, Australia, Spain and the Canary Islands. Elements of her extraordinary life have a habit of finding their way into her fiction, providing her with a ready supply of inspiration.
Isobel grew up in and around Adelaide, South Australia as a ten-pound Pom. It was in 1973 and she had just turned eleven when she discovered she wanted to dedicate her life to writing fiction. That was the year her parents owned a roadhouse with a pool table, a juke box and a pinball machine. The year she hand-reared a lamb and spent weekends on her best friend"s farm. Isobel may have pursued her dream right then, but life had other plans.
Isobel returned with her family to spend her teenage ye
