Rosemary Furber

Rosemary Furber was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She grew up there and on the north coast. She went to Coleraine High School where she was the first local girl to get to Oxbridge. She read law at Churchill College, Cambridge and rowed for the university twice. She was a solicitor with Farrers and Herbert Smith in London before she joined publishers Butterworths as their commissioning editor of legal books. She worked for them until the third of her three children was born. That’s when she realised that she’d wanted to write. She started with freelance journalism for London’s Evening Standard, the Independent on Sunday, various magazines and she was part of the founding team of The Week.

Rosemary presently lives in south east London with her husband James and their daughter and two sons. She is a prison visitor and leads a creative writing group at a drop-in centre for homeless people in south London where she is a trustee. She plays the cornet in East London Brass.

Rosemary’s first book: What You See Is What You Get is a children’s book published by Wolfhound Press.