I am delighted to invite author, Debbie Rix to join me for a chat. We discuss her new release, Daughters of the Silk Road, feeling Scottish, and her love for Italy. Over to you Debbie:

The Fun Stuff:

What part of the world do you come from?

I was born and brought up in Kent – about an hour by train from London. I spent my free time playing in the woods opposite our house, and my school life in a London girls’ school. So I had an interesting combination growing up of rural/urban.   My parents are from Scotland and the North East of England.  So I have a big connection with those parts of the UK.  Although born and brought up in the South East of England, I feel ‘Scottish’. Most of my parents’ friends were Scottish, so the accents, the philosophy of life etc were part of my DNA –…