ABSTRACT
I come from a loving, supportive family, the middle of three daughters all separated by about two years in age. As a child I went to the local school, then a convent a little further away, where I travelled by school bus each day, then by my own choice to a boarding school from 16 to 18. I was always happy at school, did well academically and was relatively popular – at least, I never had to make much effort to make friends. My father commented when I was a teenager that I didn’t seem to need people and maybe that’s why people gravitated towards me – like cats, who always seem to go to whoever doesn’t like cats!
