Eva Adams is fictional in that she is who I choose to be and the name under which I write.

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Until now I have had two other surnames; my father's and my husband's.  When I started to write many years ago I felt I needed my own name and so Eva Adams was born.

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I was born in London to Polish parents who wanted to ensure I never forgot my Polish roots.  Polish brownies, Polish Saturday school, Polish church, Polish cinema, Polish discos, Polish dance…  we spent every summer in Poland where I loved the open plains, mountains, even swimming in ice cold streams…   But I was also a London girl who loved going to gigs (especially Bowie), rowing on the Serpentine and drinking and dancing in London's clubs. 

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I've lived in London, France, Germany, Sicily, Brighton, Austria, Dorset, Ukraine and Singapore.  I've had a wide variety of jobs from ski instructor to marketing director and many years working with the British Council which took me all over the world.

 

My 'adventures' have included: 

head injuries: 7 

held at gunpoint: 2

in love: 3+

countries lived in: 7

countries visited: 50+

jobs: 20+

strangled: 1 

attacked by thugs but got them back: 1

married: 1

children: 2

widowed: 1 

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The shock of my husband's premature departure from life (he was only thirty six) left a devastating hole. My first screenplay, Black Snow, tells the story of how our family came to terms with his loss.

 

I live, I dream, I write.  It's how I make sense of the world; through stories about life, death, dreams, love, loss and the myriad of other themes which occupy our lives.