Hello!
I’m Rachael.

I grew up in Scotland and went to five different primary schools, including one in Melbourne, Australia for a while. Then I came home, lived near Edinburgh, and went to university in Northern Ireland. Since then I’ve worked as a commis chef in Germany, (where I set myself on fire making pasta), been a hotel chambermaid on the Isle of Skye, worked on a strawberry farm, run a stable yard, managed an Arabian stud farm, worked at a vets, worked for a national newspaper, run a marathon, and answered questions for a living. All of which have given me a terrible CV but lots to write about.

I’ve lived on a Scottish island in a house belonging to the Marquess of Bute, in a cottage on Lord Mountbatten’s country estate in Essex, in numerous other houses all over the UK and now I’ve settled in Buckingham, which is a beautiful little town in the middle of England. I live there with my four children, a dog, and a cat.

If you want to get in touch, you can email me here
or leave a comment here below, or say hello on one of the posts I’ve written. I love hearing from you!

If you’d like to read more about my writing (my first novel is written, book no2 is planned, and the characters for book no3 are jumping about, waiting to get on a page) have a look at the Tales from the Village writing page where you can find out more.