Noreen lives in Consett, county Durham in the north east of England. Which is where her book is set, as it has some beautiful and old history for her to take the vampires and witches back in time and to link the local history in to her stories. She went to adult learning when her children was small but had to stop this. She found out she had arthritis in her hip. This was when she picked up her pen and started to write Crimson Coffee. Noreen worked on her story and with the help of her 5 children asking silly questions. Like do vampires go to the toilet? Noreen adds a sense of family values in...