Judith Barrow

Judith is another Crime Cymru member who moved from the Pennines to Pembrokeshire.

When did you start writing, and why?

I don’t remember a time I didn’t write. I was rather a loner as a child; When I was six we’d moved to a small estate in a village on the edge of the Pennines. We weren’t allowed to bring anyone into our house. I read a lot and kept a diary for years – bought for me by my mother each Christmas. But then, one day, my father read it; it was the day after there had been a massive argument between him and Mum – the repercussions of my writing about it were, shall we say, not good.

From then on, I wrote only about everyday events in the diary, and kept a separate journal in exercise books that I bought from the newspaper shop with my pocket…