Suzie Townley

The author grew up in a small cottage in Somerset, England. As a child she loved dancing, singing, playing the piano and violin, and writing stories and poems. Later, after pioneering a research project at the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Switzerland and graduating in Psychology, she emigrated to Canada where she lived and worked in many different provinces. But having an adventurous spirit, she eventually gravitated to the wilderness of the Kootenay Mountains of British Columbia, living amiably with wild horses and the occasional  bear. This is where she wrote this book in 1972. Returning to civilisation in England after a few years, she qualified in several therapeutic disciplines, and resumed playing the violin in symphony orchestras.