Tails of Two Squirrels Part 1 - Falling for You

Natalie Hopkins

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Romance LGBT Humor Fantasy Teen & Young Adult

BIOGRAPHY
Natalie Hopkins introduces her debut fantasy series, A Tail of Two Squirrels, with Book 1 - Falling for You.

She lives in Cwmbrân, South Wales with her partner and their 3 miniature dachshunds; George, Berticus and Stanley.

In her life she has worked in assorted places around the world; as a SCUBA... Diving Instructor in Jersey, Bahamas, Cyprus, Sinai, Egypt and Pralin, Seychelles as well as around the UK.

She spent a few years training as an ODP in Operating Departments and taught First Aid at Work Courses for the South Wales Ambulance Service.

Natalie is a certified and insured Clinical Hypnotherapist; an Auricular, Cosmetic and a YNSA Scalp Acupuncturist; a Traumatologist and also spent 12 years in Citizens Advice Torfaen as a Debt, Benefits and Energy Specialist.

As well as writing, she is also an Holistic Therapist offering Reiki Spiritual Healer, Oracle Card and Goddess Rune reader plus a Pain Management Practitioner.

She is already in the process of writing the next couple of books in the Series and has begun to write a Series of books about Dragons.

When did you start writing, what moved you to start writing?

Approximately 5 years ago I began attending a Spiritual Group meeting to help me cope with my recently diagnosed Clinical Anxiety and Depression which I felt was caused by the struggle in a stressful job dealing with other people’s problems. I had worked for Citizens Advice for 12 years and the constant threat of loss of funding compounded by helping clients’ at threat of losing their homes and dealing with bailiffs became too much. My physical and mental health deteriorated and as I started practicing meditation and reiki my mind and body felt clearer and freer, I began receiving messages that I needed to get out of my job. To relieve stress I began scribbling and put pen to paper or typed notes I’d made. I had daydreams of animals and saw certain animals in meditation and I began writing about them. I began to write and things just escalated from there.

I’m expressing my own pent up thoughts in the stories and using my humour to explain some forms of personal issues and discrimination and how people deal with it. It’s based around British Wildlife that live along the Countryside and riverbank of Caerleon, Bulmore and Kemys and deals with life from 2 squirrels points of view.

People should buy my book for the humour and satire that’s woven around the words and stories. I’ve attempted to intertwine folklore and whatever makes me smile into the story.

– What is your all time favorite novel/book? What makes it special?

My all time favourite book is The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton ( read more