She says she can see and hear the characters in her mind before committing them to paper where they just grow into real people.
Banking was only one of the many jobs she has tried, and her knowledge of flying, albeit for a short time, gave her the idea of introducing the aeroplane chase.
The photograph is a much younger photo of the author. Since then her life has been filled with so many experiences she is able to draw upon these to fill up her writing. Her life is laid out in detail in a biography she wrote about herself and her eccentric family. 'The Quirky Clan, a biography of an eccentric family and their unconventional lives'. It is funny and as descriptive as the plots of her books.
Anna's recent book of short stories - 'Ghostly Tales and Curious Stories from England' contain one of two real stories but the rest are pure fiction culled from her extraordinary ability to dream up the twists and turns of ghostly happenings.