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Biography:
Stella Longland was born in 1946 in a farmhouse in Suffolk that needed everything doing to it. Used to and loving being on the farm, her life was changed abruptly at the age of ten when she was, as were all her siblings, sent off to boarding school.
These interminable words appeared monotonously in her school reports: Could do better if tried harder. By the time she left school she had become an angry rebel with no plans.
After a few years working in the theatre she decided to go to university and crammed for A levels at Cambridge Tech. Excellent results took her to Lancaster University and a BA in English and Classics.
Her work on a PhD was interrupted by getting pregnant, and her only child, a beautiful daughter, was the result. To earn a living while being able to stay at home to look after her baby she temporarily took up sewing.
Twenty five years later, when her daughter left home, the time came to do something completely different. Burning the boxes of PhD notes that had waited in a cupboard all those years, she moved to the north of Scotland where she still lives contemplating her navel and other mysteries.
