Mary Morgan

I was born and raised in Great Britain, and
trained there as a nurse and midwife, but
when my husband was offered the post of chief
resident in surgery at the Childrens Hospital
in Seattle, we moved here with our two children.
Two months later, our third child was born and
we've all been here ever since. Seattle is a
wonderful place to live and work.
I was an operating room nurse both here and in
Britain but I've had several other jobs,
flight attendant, hotel manager, even "nanny",
and once ran an antique store in the historical
Pike Place Market here in Seattle.

But what I'd always wanted to be was a writer.
My very first publication was a small article
in an English national newspaper about coming
to the United States. In time, I sold short
stories to The Ladies Home Journal, Ellery Queen
and Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazines and to
The Seattle Post Intelligencer, and wrote a
monthly column for a local medical publication.
If I was going to be a "real" writer, I decided,
I should be writing novels, and that,I soon
found out, took a great deal more time and luck.

Eventually, in 1997, after the usual failures
and rejections, WILLFUL NEGLECT, the story of
a malpractice suit seen through the eyes of a
small town attorney, was published by St.
Martin's Press. In 2002, St Martin's Press
published DEEPER WATERS, also about the same
lawyer, Noah Richards, now involved in a clash
between Native Americans and local residents
who live on the shores of Puget Sound, over
property and fishing rights.

Between those two novels, THE HOUSE AT THE
EDGE OF THE JUNGLE, came out in 1999,(from St. Martin's),the tale of an English brother and
sister who return to their birth place, now
Malaysia, to try and discover the fate of
their parents who disappeared during the
Japanese invasion in the second world war.

My fourth novel, THE SOUND OF HER NAME, came
out in June 2005, from St. Martin's Press,
a story that spans the second world war and
the Vietnam era and set in Wales, my home
country.