A former regional journalist has written a book about prisoners she visited over the course of a decade.
Christine Holland, pictured, who used to be women’s editor at the Maidenhead Advertiser, has penned The Visits under her nom-de-plume Christine Brown.
The book, which was released earlier this month, focuses on a selection of the individuals she met during her 10 years as an official prison visitor from about 1990-2000.
Christine, 86, has previously written a book about her experience of adopting their five children with her then husband.
Discussing her time in the prison visiting role, Christine told the Advertiser: “I did enjoy them, you meet different people.
“You just have to talk to people who have different lives to yours and have a normal conversation.”
Her third book, a memoir about family life in Scotland where she was born and brought up, is in the process of being published.
I thought she was writing about her later years in a newspaper office..
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