Pamela O’Cuneen was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. After University she worked as a secondary teacher, then set off in 1968 on a two year working holiday to Europe. She never came home.
She studied French in Paris at the Sorbonne and Italian at the Università per Stranieri , then travelled to the UK where she worked both as a teacher and for the British Council. Marriage brought with it the necessity to become an Ambassador’s wife, in Africa and the Caribbean, stories of which which are told in her first two books “Culture Shock and Canapés” and “Hummingbirds in My Hair”.
Pamela trained as a psychologist and Interfaith Minister and now lives in Kent where she writes, leads meditation groups and plays the harp.
