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Her work is from the historical, saga, and general fiction genres. Leah’s debut album, called “The Girl From World’s End”, was released in the year 2007. She trained as a therapist where she ran workshops in Stress management and worked for RELATE in a rural setting. When she moved to Yorkshire, she ran a catering business from a market stall. Leah graduated from Leeds University in the swinging sixties and taught in Adult literacy classes and primary schools. Favorite American authors include Anne Tyler and Barbara Kingsolver. Her favorites are Val McDermid, Reginald Hill, Peter Robinson, and Stephen Booth. She likes crime fiction, and the grittier the better. Raising four kids, reading time wasn’t so easy to glean, although she did discover Wilfred Own and war poets like Margaret Drabble, Susan Hill, John Fowles, as well as Emily Dickinson’s poetry

If there was anything racy and romantic, she would read it, particularly if the sense of place and time were strong. While at Compulsory University reading was softened up by Anya Seton, Daphne du Maurier, Elizabeth Grudge, and Catherine Cookson. Thomas Hardy’s novels and John Donne’s poetry gripped her with tragic stories and sense of place. The library was their second home and reading was for diversion and knowledge.ĭuring school, Shakespeare’s plays caught her imagination. Post war austerity took its toll on Leah’s childhood. Leah came from a family where hymn books and the Bible were around all the time but there weren’t any bought books. Alice in Wonderland terrified her then and still does. The Enchanted Wood gave her many hours of pleasure where she made up her own lands at the very top of the Faraway Tree. She walked half way across Bolton so she could borrow a copy because she just couldn’t wait through the weekend to hear how it would end from their teacher’s serial reading. She writes full time from the slopes of an olive grove in Crete and from her haunted farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales.Įven when she was a child she would make a drama out of a crisis, however, Enid Blyton stories were her first page turners, particularly “The Secret Island”. Leah Fleming was born in Lancashire to Scottish parents, and is married with four grown up kids and four grandchildren.