Diane Speight
Diane Speight is mother to a four-year-old daughter and a six-month-old son. She specialises in travel and family writing, and is easing herself back into work before her life disappears in a haze of daytime television. She lives in the south of England with her family but harbours a desire to move somewhere hot and sunny with sandy beaches.
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