Sylvia Bowley gained the certificate of education at Salisbury Training College and is a graduate of the Open University. She has taught in senior and junior schools in Surrey, Tanzania, West Wales, and the West Midlands.
Since 1973, she and her husband have holidayed in Europe, mainly in France and Spain, in their camper van but on retirement in 1999 set about seeing the rest of the world on long-haul trips by plane.
For the past fifty years, Sylvia has lived in a small market town in Shropshire.
She has a son and two step-daughters.
With most of her friends married, Sylvia at 23 can find no good reason for turning down her boyfriend’s proposal of marriage. In her heart, though, she knows that she longs to be free to see more of the world before settling down to what she feels would be a humdrum life of a domestic city in the ...