Barby
Keel has run an animal sanctuary in the countryside in Sussex for
54
years. At the age of 28 Barby bought four acres of land for 1400,
built
her own home brick by brick, and then dedicated her life to
caring for
the animals who were often dumped at her door.
Barby is working with Cathryn Kemp, Sunday Times
bestselling writer, award-winning author and a former journalist. She
has written across the spectrum of the British press, both tabloid and
broadsheet, and online, and for many magazines. In 2002 she won the
Peter Wilson Award for Journalism before running her own press agency
writing for radio and television. She is the author of Coming Clean: Diary of a Painkiller Addict,
published by Piatkus in 2012, which won the Big Red Read Prize for
non-fiction in 2013. Cathryn has written seven other titles, including Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse, We Ain't Got No Drink, Pa and A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile.