Traveller turned author
Authors take all kinds of paths into writing. This one - Emily Gravett who wrote and illustrated The Odd Egg - used to be a ‘traveller’. The Independent explains.
If you are from the UK then you’ll know what ‘traveller’ means. If you are from somewhere else, imagine adopting an alternative lifestyle, putting dreadlocks into your hair, getting a scruffy looking dog on a string, wearing dirty old woolly sweaters and living in a tent or a dirty old bus for a long period of time.
Then their daughter, Oleander, arrived in 1997. “We were living on site in West Wales and she was very ill when she was born. Having been in the Special Care Unit, where it was all clean and you’re washing yourself like mad, we brought her back into the bus. It was an inch deep in dog hair,” she recalls, “and you didn’t even want to put her down really.”
