The author's awareness of being able to write a meaningful story began during her school days, when her English teacher presented a copy of a story she had written, to her class peers to read as an...view moreThe author's awareness of being able to write a meaningful story began during her school days, when her English teacher presented a copy of a story she had written, to her class peers to read as an example of how to write a story to music.
Since those school days, her life has been very busy. In addition to marrying at nineteen, and having four children with just as many grandchildren, she trained as a nurse, gaining her masters degree and has over the past twenty five years been working in the health care sector.
Needless to say, over those years, the author has also enjoyed reading many children's adventures, love stories, murder and detective mysteries not forgetting the professional literature to support her nursing practice.
Consequently Joys writing voice, influenced and inspired by her home life and nursing practice, purposely hides nothing from her readers. She encourages them to experience the feelings and emotions of each character. The warm bond felt by the author for each person she creates in her stories, transfers with ease and sense of expectancy to the reader.
The novel entitled The Children from under the Ice and Santa's present although written as a children's fiction adventure with characters of a younger age range, it brings simplistic warmth, along with a hint of humour that helps the storyline to appeal to readers of all ages.
The silent humour and surfacing snatches of open fun, mix well with the flow of action, holding the reader as the story unfolds towards its triumphant end or is it just the begin-ning?view less