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Alison Wilson experienced the hardships of wartime London, then trained at Guy’s Hospital as a physiotherapist. She was invited to remain as a junior physiotherapist at the end of her training having been awarded the Manley Memorial Prize from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists. After meeting her husband she found herself in the Sudan as a District Commissioner’s wife; unexpected but very interesting, and they later occasionally used Arabic to speak during mealtimes when they needed their three daughters to be kept in the dark. An even greater change was finding herself as a Vicar’s wife in her late 30’s. Rising splendidly to the challenge, she contributed a great deal and, as a result, has many wonderful friends to see her through her 90’s.

Jill Morgan is a retired Primary School teacher in North Norfolk. The portrait was commissioned to celebrate her 60th birthday.

David Faulkner is a retired NFU Group Secretary for East Norfolk and Insurance Agent for NFU Mutual in East Norfolk. He is married to Zan Edmonds.

Dr Suzanne (aka Zan) Edmonds is a retired GP and married to David Faulkner.

Adam Rayner is an English/American actor whose film and television work includes Sensitive Skin, Mistresses, Waking The Dead, Hunted and Miranda. His stage work includes The Rivals at The Bristol Old Vic, Romeo and Juliet at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Much Ado About Nothing at The Novello and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me at The Minerva Theatre, Chichester. For US Television he starred as Bassam ‘Barry’ Al-Fayeed in Tyrant, as Matthew Collier in The Fix and as Max Gilford in Notorious. For Netfix he played Simon Templer in the 2017 film, The Saint.

Lucy Brown is an English actress who has appeared in film and television including Sharpe’s Challenge, Malice Aforethought, North and South, Whatever Love Means and as Harriet Kilmartin in The Village. She played the dual roles of Claudia Brown and Jenny Lewis in the sci-fi series Primeval and appears as Olena in the feature film Bitter Harvest. She has worked as a co-writer with the actress Olivia Poulet and she currently has a TV series in development in the US. Lucy’s work also includes reading for audio books and Word Theatre events.

Audrey Sharp is a former Head of Human Resources.

Christopher Barker was a photographer whose work included portraits of poets which are in the collection of The National Portrait Gallery. His subjects included Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Lawrence Durrell, Norman MacCaig and many others. He was the son of the poet George Barker and the writer Elizabeth Smart. In mid life he suffered a car accident which resulted in the loss of his left eye.

Andy Smith is a London born IT professional now retired and living in Norfolk.

Morgan Jayne was born South Wales and after undergraduate and postgraduate studies at The University of East Anglia she lived for twenty five years in the city of Norwich. Having taught for twenty years in higher and further education she succumbed to her wanderlust and now lives aboard Narrowboat Sunbeam. Travelling the country’s canals, she divides her time between creating hand-sewn leather bags and books and occasional teaching.

Lucy Yates is a writer who was born in Manchester and now lives in London. She has been awarded Arts Council England funding and her short stories have appeared in anthologies including Parenthesis and Dead Languages. She also teaches Creative Writing for The Open University.