C J HolgateC J Holgate was born in England in 1960 and at the age of four, went to Kenya, with her parents. She has lived in Cyprus, Malawi, England and Spain and now she is back in Africa. C J Holgate got a degree in English, music and French at Matlock Colleg, Derbyshire and a Masters in Women's Studies at the University of Barcelona. She has worked as a barmaid, English teacher and gardener. Now she makes jewelry and writes. She lives on her four-acre plot in the Dhuruma farmlands at the Kenya coast with her ten-year-old son, whom she is home schooling. They live with four dogs, four cats, four chickens and a nanny goat.