Thea's Parrot
Marcia Willett was born in Somerset, the youngest of five girls.  After training to become a ballet dancer, she joined her sister's Dance Academy as ballet mistress.  She then became a naval wife and her son was born in 1970.   She now lives in Devon with her husband, Rodney, who first encouraged Marcia to write, and their Newfoundland, Trubshawe.