Minette walters author biography page

Minette Walters was born in Bishop’s Stortford in to Samuel Jebb and Colleen Jebb. As her father was a serving army officer, the first 10 years of her life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England.

Her father died in , following years of ill health from his desert service during World War II. Minette was educated through a generous Foundation Scholarship at the Godolphin School in Salisbury.

During a gap year between school and Durham University, , Minette volunteered in Israel with The Bridge in Britain, working on a kibbutz and in a delinquent boys&#; home in Jerusalem.

She graduated from Trevelyan College, Durham in with a BA in French.

Minette met her husband Alec Walters while she was at Durham and they married in They have two sons: Roland, who is married to Charlotte, and Philip, who is married to Sarah: and three granddaughters: Madeleine, Martha and Hermione.

Minette joined IPC Magazines as a sub-editor in and became an editor o