What I Did Not Say

Bev Spicer was born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire in 1956. She attended the local grammar school and spent many a weekend learning to fly with her father at The Midland Gliding Club, Long Mynd, Shropshire. After leaving school, she went on to study French and English Literature at Keele University, where she also became interested in astronomy, which she took as a subsidiary subject during her first year and which led to a fascination with astrophysics and quantum theory. After taking up a secretarial post in New Bond Street, London then working briefly as a croupier for Playboy, London she decided to train to be a teacher. She graduated from Queens' College Cambridge with a PGCE and completed her probationary year at Stantonbury Campus in Milton Keynes. She then left England to teach English in Greece and later in Seychelles, before returning to Cambridge. Her most recent appointment was as lecturer in English as a Foreign Language, specialising in academic writing and English pronunciation at Anglia Ruskin University. She has held posts as assistant examiner for many Cambridge international examinations, including Regional Team Leader for the Cambridge Advanced Exam. She moved to France in 2008 with her husband and two youngest children, where she lives in a crumbly old house and writes full-time, when she is not star-gazing.