Christine Taylor Rees

Born and raised in Cheshire, England, after studying Languages and Business, Christine Taylor Rees soon moved to her spiritual home of South Wales. Never quite able to settle permanently, she and her husband decided to abandon everything and move aboard ‘Anju’, a twelve metre steel sailing ketch, to explore the world. Despite neither of them having set foot aboard a sailing boat at the point this decision was made, and the budget being small, the plan proved successful. They spent fourteen wonderful years sailing Western Europe, the Caribbean, Venezuela, the USA, and Canada.

Her love of books and reading, stifled in school by studying extremely dreary foreign literature, was rekindled during a long, slow sail across the Atlantic Ocean, where the consumption of a book a day helped the distance fly by, even if only at five miles per hour.

On reaching the East coast of the United States, it became clear that only a tiny fraction of that huge and diverse land could possibly be explored by sea. Harvey-the-RV, a twenty-two foot Toyota Mini-motorhome, became the means of exploration during the summer months. These extended road trips, covering all fifty States and much of Canada, became the inspiration for the ‘Resident Alien’ series of books, and her husband’s love of fly-fishing allowed ample dreaming and writing time.

Between travel adventures, Christine Taylor Rees is based in the Brecon Beacons and kept out of mischief by six step-grandchildren, her love of gardening and frequent hikes in the Welsh hills.