She enjoys writing poetry, stories and picture book texts. In 1990, she took early retirement in order to concentrate full-time on writing. She has taught in Leicestershire, Yorkshire and for a year in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the USA. June trained as a primary school teacher at Dudley Training College, in the West Midlands. She enjoyed playing cricket, playing "two-ball" against the side wall of her house, and cycling/picnic trips with her family. She counts herself fortunate that one of the mainline railways, LNER, ran along the bottom of her garden. Her favourite book was The Thirteenth Orphan by Christine Chandler, which she rediscovered to her delight in a second-hand bookshop recently. Reading was a passion: her own books, her brother’s and the Victorian novels she found in the attic. She recited poems to her father, who typed them out in black ink, and her name beneath in red ink. From an early age, she wrote poems and stories in red notebooks that she bought at the post office. June grew up in a village in Leicestershire.
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