Anna Rashbrook

I’ve only really used my farm and animal experiences so far in my books.

I’ve only set one book in Austria where I lived and I loved writing my experiences and memories into this.

I’ve had dogs and horses all my life. They are part of me and they write themselves into my books even when I try not to have them there.

I write in the desire to share what I believe, even if it is only gently, so that maybe someone will begin to think about God and who he is.

I get bored with writing one sort of book and like to try new things. My memoirs are my witness to the world of my life as a Christian.

I worked in a college in the UK, where students with Learning Disabilities who loved horses came on a three year residential course and we used the horses as a way of teaching them. Horses reflect us, our emotions and state of mind, often when we are totally unaware of that. I used this when I worked with non ridden therapy where you give exercises to people on foot and learn things about themselves that the horses reveal to them. This is why I wrote my Horses and Souls series.

I could write a really funny book about our experiences but haven’t got to that yet!

I love the countryside and describing places that I know and have lived in are very real to me as I write, such as the location in Legacy.

Untangled relationships aren’t interesting to write or read!

Dear Boot isn’t a novel. It’s a collection of the letters my mother and I wrote to each other when I spent a year working in Switzerland in the 1970s.

Rural life is often the best backdrop for strong emotions as nature can often echo what is going on in the plot.

I love the author Elizabeth Goudge, and have read her books all my life, but my writing is fails to reach her wonderful spirituality.

The trilogy which Finding is part of is my witness to the world of my faith and journey with God. I felt he was telling me to write it all down, so I did. I have always kept a diary so it was simply a case of reading them and making them into a readbale form.

Probably all the horse books I’ve always read!

Brilliant, it’s been fun on here. I joined as I saw it was a growing and really good promotional site.