Career
Educated at Downe House School and the Royal College of Music, she embarked on a career with the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1954, initially as a studio manager, then becoming a programme producer of Radio 4"s "Woman"s Hour". She moved to television and specialized in religious programming. She resigned from the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1978, and started to work as an author
Her biographical subjects tend to be individuals who have taken a spiritual journey of their own, and whose subsequent influence has been important.
Her interests include psychology, music, walking, gardening and meditation. She is a patron of the Prison Phoenix Trust and a Trustee of the Oxford Zendo.
Her books have been translated into French, Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch and Polish.