In Sri Lanka, I was made to leave my family home, aged four, with my mum, remaining homeless for eight years of my childhood. I observed the cultural confusion in the wake of Independence, without a welfare system or women’s shelters to provide aid. Aged 10, I was in a remote orphanage where British tea planters hid their progeny with lower-caste women. This provided an insight into a parallel universe. When English was banned in schools by the government, my mother and I joined the exodus with English mother-tongue seeking jobs in UK. In London we faced signs ‘No Blacks, No Irish’. Relatives who housed us, lied about my age and made me work full-time for the London Underground. I am the author of Insight Guide Sri Lanka 1998. Contributor to The Good School Guides, Saga Magazine, The Evening Standard, Penthouse Magazine, Ritz Magazine. Leicester Writes 2020. Travel Consultant to Mr & Mrs Smith and Sri Lanka in Style. My debut novel The Barefoot Girl Who Spoke Like the Queen was Shortlisted for Morley Writers of Colour Prize 2022.
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