After working in London as a secretary for some time, Linda got the wanderlust and took herself off to Greece and then Turkey on the back of her boyfriend’s motorbike, and inevitably her love of Ancient Egypt took her to the land of the Pyramids.
Once she’d travelled East, her wanderings took her West, ending up in Barbados where she taught Art in a grammar school for two years and loved every minute of it. From there she moved north ending on the west coast of Canada where she met Alan, her husband to be.
Knowing her desire to stay and work in Canada, impossible without a permit, Alan proposed marriage on their first date! It took her less than a minute to agree!
Their first child, her beautiful son Luke came along by accident but within three years family illness meant the call home to England was too loud to be ignored. The family settled in the Midlands and soon the family had another addition in the form of David their second son.
Unfortunately in 1999 Linda was diagnosed with liver cancer, and they put her through a series of rigorous tests to establish her suitability for a donor organ, and as is often the case the doctors found other problems, including her heart. After a prolonged stay in hospital she went to St James Hospital in Leeds and was put on the List and given a bleeper to keep with her at all times.
Within twenty-four hours the bleeper went off and they operated the following morning. Linda was to survive another ten years, grasping and squeezing every drop of life from every moment. She became an ardent member of a local writing group and a theatre group and lived life to the full. She saw both sons grow up, graduate from University and became a very proud grandmother to Zac a few months before finally succumbing to liver failure on 1st December 2009.
“Guilt takes a Holiday” was finished, but she was unable to submit the manuscript before becoming too ill. With the help of family, friends and the members of the writing group, we are proud to publish this book in her name, as a fitting memorial.