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Judy Fisher

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Born in Egypt, Judy was sent to boarding school in England aged eight. By the time she was sixteen she had enough of school, left and took a secretarial course before whisking off to London to enjoy the Swinging Sixties. She married a Liverpool businessman and enrolled in the Open University when it was established by Harold Wilson in 1971. Divorced, with two children and a degree in social psychology, she worked in a variety of research and planning jobs in the National Health Service, England, before setting up her own health promotion business to design publications, run conferences, provide support to projects and write reports.
 
In her mid-fifties and seeking adventure, she and her second husband moved to Mauritius, an island in the Indian ocean, where she learnt to fish, he met a younger woman and became a Muslim. Divorced again she spent the next ten years travelling around the world, fishing, wine tasting and bartering for accommodation. She eventually settled in Dunedin before moving ten years later to Riwaka.
A compulsive diarist and inspired by Julia Cameron, Judy’s been writing Morning Pages for over twenty-five years. She’s written a number of articles for magazines and newspapers and had a monthly column, for three years, in The Rothesay News, a free, community newspaper published on the West Harbour, Dunedin. She occasionally writes poems.
 
Judy attended writing courses at Otago University and was encouraged to write a memoir about her nomadic decade based on diaries and travel letters written at the time. Off the Hook was independently published through CopyPress in May 2020. A true story, it was written to encourage those who suddenly face life alone in middle age.

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1st published: 2020
Judy Fisher
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      • Robyn Bennett
      • Patricia Berwick
      • Martin Bird
      • David Briggs
      • Ali Brown
      • Suzanne Clark
      • Rachel Craw
      • Marion Day
      • John Du Four
      • Colin Fisher
      • Phil Garnock-Jones
      • Bruce Gilkison
      • Jeanette Goode
      • Elizabeth Gould
    • Authors H-P >
      • Carolyn Hawes
      • Rebecca Hayter
      • Pam Henson
      • Wix Hutton
      • Linda Jane Keegan
      • Julie Kennedy
      • Liz Mahoney
      • Jan Marsh
      • Anne Marshman
      • Paul Maunder
      • Carol Maxwell
      • Rosalina-Ludmila McCarthy
      • Helen McKinlay
      • Phil Morrell
      • Tania Norfolk
      • Trish Palmer
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      • ​Tarmo Rajasaari
      • Shannon Savvas
      • Annabel Schuler
      • Wendy Scott
      • Kate Shaw
      • Susan Smith
      • Charlotte Squire
      • Karen Stade
      • Emma Stevens
      • Chris Stuart
      • W F Stubbs
      • Fiona Summerfield
      • Kerry Sunderland
      • Sylvan Thomson
      • Chris Tait
      • Colin Taylor
      • Lucy Wilson
      • Iona Winter
      • Angela Woolf
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