Blackbirds Baked In A Pie
Subtitle Memories from Rozinante
By Eugene Barter
Published by
Sunpenny Publishing Group
ISBN 9781907984167
Category Travel/Holiday
Summer 2013
Synopsis
Sir Edward Heath’s Private Secretary didn’t take retirement sitting down! At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start an auberge. This is the story of her experiences.
Author's Biography
Born in Penarth, South Wales, Eugene left school at 16 to work as a trainee journalist on two local newspapers, in the days when discrimination against women in the workplace made the job twice the challenge it was for male colleagues. Moving on to an assignment in Holland at a Unesco conference, she stayed on for two years, learning the language and working with companies in Amsterdam struggling to get back on their feet after the horrors of the second World War