Profile: Teresa Eliot

About This Author

TERRY ELIOT was born in 1941, the only child of a Naval officer and would-be Canadian mother, who was accidentally born in England. After the war the family moved around, at one time living in Bermuda and Malta, and on various naval air stations in Scotland. On leaving school, following a spell as a secretary which she hated, she entered the theatre, working mainly in Rep (often in comedy farces), but with small parts in TV and films She switched to the production side of the business in the 1980s, combining this with writing.She is a keen gardener and now lives for part of the year in France with her travelling cat, Ollie.