Hello. I’m Ros Barber
I’m an award-winning novelist with carpentry skills, a historian with a PhD in English Literature and a BSc in biology, and a trauma therapist who used to program mainframe computers for big corporations. In my twenties, I fronted a band and had a song played on the John Peel show; in my thirties, I was the smallholding beekeeper responsible for this baby change sign.
I’m a lifelong convertible sports car enthusiast and, for the last quarter century, a domestic abuse survivor. I am equally passionate about power tools and quantum biology. I’ve been a Senior Lecturer and a cleaner. I’ve raised four children, though they deny this. I have in-depth knowledge of 16th-century playwright and spy Christopher Marlowe, am Patron of the UK’s Marlowe Society, know rather a lot about 18th-century pirates … and used to make my own clothes.
If this combination of facts doesn’t make sense to you, welcome to the life of a neurodivergent polymath.
I also made this website. Some of it is written in the third person because in the first person, it would be deeply embarrassing. Maybe it’s still embarrassing. I’ll keep working on it.
Where I’m active is on Substack.
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