Ann Richardson

Ann Richardson was a self-employed social researcher for most of her working life and wrote books and articles about her research. But she found that her real love is writing narrative books, in which people’s exact words from interviews form the essence of a book, allowing them to speak very directly to readers. These include a book about how it feels to be a grandmother (Celebrating Grandmothers); a book about people living with HIV/AIDS when there was no cure (Wise Before Their Time, Foreword by Sir Ian McKellen); and a book about what it is like to work in end-of-life care (Life in a Hospice, with a Foreword by Tony Benn).