Sue McBean is a nurse teacher, sailor, wildflower photographer and botanist who has been writing creatively for ten years. Living many years now on the North coast of Northern Ireland she was brought up in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Sue writes prose with poetic style, reflecting on her life, exploring themes of sea, sailing, island life and nature. She is interested in overlaying difficult experiences with beauty, art and laughter, and is currently writing a memoir, a series of essays about well-being and children’s stories. Sue lives with a Tortoiseshell cat called Harmony.