Any Excuse for a Party

About the Book

This is a brief history of my life, woven around Christmas and our family’s love of partying, decking the halls, and feasting. Although in recent years the idea of Christmas has become associated with largess, I have always loved the lead-up to the event, the aromas, and the feeling of expectation that the Season brings. The fairy lights, music, and joy combine to make this season like no other. Any excuse for a party!

About the Author

Born in 1929, Ange attended Kingsley School, Surrey; Wimbledon College of Art; Massey University, New Zealand; and University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Upon immigrating to New Zealand in 1960, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree at age fifty-seven, majoring in cognitive aesthetic perception and life span human development. Ange has exhibited her work in New Zealand and in England, and she has paintings and fabric work in private collections throughout the world. She writes extensively, but this is her first book to be offered for publication. Describing herself as an artist, potter, garden designer, educator, author, interior decorator, explorer, traveller, mystic, mother, and grandmother, she lives on her own in a two-hundred-year-old converted farmhouse in Dorset, England.