Taylor, Avery

Avery Taylor was born in Bristol in 1941 to a family of artists, mother a singer, uncle a magician and aunt a writer. However, though she loved singing it was obvious she would never make the grade and so she followed in her Aunt's footsteps. Moving to London in 1960 she won third prize in a serial story competition run by DC Thompson of Dundee and, after her second serial was published she turned to novels, her first book for Robert Hale, Honour in a Shallow Cup, being published in 1965. In 1966 she was interviewed on BBC radio and this led to her being commissioned to write a short story, Re...