Linda Rushby is a life-time writer, thinker, traveller, poet, blogger, grandmother and indie publisher. Her non-writing career has included working as a computer programmer, academic researcher, web designer and charity administrator.
She was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, went to university in Southampton, and after graduating she planned to come back and live on the South Coast. Since then she has lived in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, the USA and the Czech Republic, and after 40 years she finally fulfilled that ambition by settling in Southsea, Hampshire in 2015 – after which she discovered she didn’t want to live anywhere else.
In 2012, following her divorce, she set off to travel solo across Europe for six months, and her memoir of the outward journey to Istanbul, ‘Single to Sirkeci’ was published in 2017. The sequel, ‘The Long Way Back’, is currently in production and its release is planned for 2024. It covers not just the return journey, via Romania, Central Europe and Scandinavia, but the shock of arriving back in England with few of the issues which had driven her away resolved.
Good to hear from you
Thanks Sheryl. You too.
Fascinating personal history. I remember you from the days of ChatUK and our all too brief lunch in rural Northamptonshire in 2013.
All the best from an admirer.
‘John’
I also remember, but my online life has become quite complicated and I have just spent some time changing various passwords in order to delete two spam comments and accept and reply to yours. You might get a more timely response if you try the final link on the main menu, to a blog which is updated more frequently (but still not as often as I used to). On the other hand, I remember that you were quite an erratic conrrespondent yourself.
In fact (I realise now) you could even follow the link on this ‘About’ page to get to the same place!