Clayton, Sandra

As a free-lance writer my output ranged from general magazine articles to educational puppet plays for children and an award-winning radio play for the BBC. Part of my day job was to make specialist information accessible to the general public. Inevitably, after I took up blue water sailing with my husband, I wrote to make those experiences which I found so compelling accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Through sailing, for which I had no liking initially, I developed a love of the sea. In loving it, I became aware of its fragility. If my books were to achieve anything among readers...