Ruth D'Alessandro

Ruth D’Alessandro is an author and commercial copywriter (Qualtrics, The Huffington Post, Arabic To Zoology Ltd), with a special interest in post-war social history, especially policing. This fascination comes from being the daughter of police parents; her mother, Gwendoline Crockford, was one of the early 1950s WPCs in the Berkshire Constabulary, and its first woman detective in 1957.

Ruth’s brand new debut, CALLING WPC CROCKFORD, published by Welbeck Publishing on 3rd March 2022, is the first in a memoir trilogy of her mother, to be followed by CALLING WDC CROCKFORD and CALLING WPS CROCKFORD.

When she can be dragged away from her writing, Ruth loves walking miles with her border collie, growing her own vegetables, dreaming of getting more chickens, visiting strange little museums, and participating in rural village life.

You can find Ruth on Twitter @RuthDAlesWrites ; on Instagram @ruthdaleswriter and on TikTok @ruthdaleswrites