Profile: Meriel Brooke

About This Author

Meriel was born in Malaya, where her father was a rubber planter. She qualified as a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and worked for a plastic surgeon before going into the theatre where she acted in film, TV and stage including the American Shakespeare Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre. She directed several plays and was a member of the Directors’ Guild. Some years ago she moved to Herefordshire and set up a small organic farm with her husband, and her first book, Pot of Gold, a humorous account of downshifting, was published to good reviews in 1997.