Heather Peck has had a life of two halves. In the first she was both farmer and agricultural policy adviser. She bred sheep and alpacas, reared calves, broke ploughs, represented the UK in international negotiations, specialised in emergency response from Chernobyl to bird flu, managed controls over pesticides and GM crops, saw legislation through parliament and got paid to eat KitKats while on secondment to Rowntree. In the second she chaired an NHS Trust, worked on animal welfare, sailed a boat on the Norfolk Broads, volunteered in Citizens Advice and the Witness Service and vaccinated humans against Covid.
Two golden threads have run through everything; her fascination with words and her Gran's wise advice; 'You can do anything if you try hard enough.'
Heather’s second book, ‘Glass Arrows’, was shortlisted for the 2021 East Anglian Book Awards prize for fiction. Her third book 'Fires of Hate' and a novella 'Death on the Rhine' have both won Firebird Book Awards.
