Hugo Woolley was born in West Sussex, is married with two grown-up children. His mother was an eccentric picture restorer, his father a farmer and lawyer. As a dyslexic, he went to a myriad of schools, mainly because, in those days, dyslexia had hardly been invented, let alone treated! It was know as 'word blindness' and dyslectics were thought to be simple and below average intelligence. How wrong they were!Hugo was a caterer by training, and has been in the catering trade for nearly fifty years. He ran various bars and restaurants in London, before opening his own sandwich shops in the City of London - one of the forerunners of the 'trendy sandwich era' of the 1980s. In 1993, he opened designer sausage shops in Kent and Sussex, well before quality sausages became a fad.Unfortunately, after just over a year of trading, he was badly injured in a car accident and was airlifted to hospital, where he remained for eight months being glued back together. Whilst in hospital, he started writing, mainly about his experience during his hospital care and recovery, learning to walk again, and getting back to some kind of normality. In 2002, when Hugo was mostly recovered, he and his wife moved to Cornwall. They opened a successful B&B near Padstow. He wrote and published a cookbook of breakfast and brunch, but his passion was writing historical fiction, mainly set during the Second World War. For the past four years he has been writing The Charlotte's War Trilogy. Book one, 'Girl on a Golden Pillow' was published on November 2nd 2022.Read more about this authorRead less about this author