In my early twenties my brother and I hitch-hiked to Lebanon where we lived and worked for some time. I fell in love with the country and was devastated by the civil war which broke out shortly after I returned to South Africa. I had travelled home from England overland, during which I had ample time to write, mostly poetry at that time, and think about my future direction. But it was not until I was in my thirties that I began writing seriously. My early influences came from such novelists as John Steinbeck, Doris Lessing, and Lawrence Durrell but as my own books developed I began to read more non-fiction and biographies than novels. I married, and between raising a family began work on Opus Dei, a novel set in Lebanon. Opus Dei had its inception in the civil war. It was to have been a simple story of a family trapped in a conflict from which there was no escape, but it grew in layers and developed into the multi-faceted novel it is today. I have a fascination with prophecy and Opus Dei culminates in the final events as demonstrated by the myths, legends and Biblical prophecy.
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