Audrey Brettle

Alexandra Audrey Brettle (1937–2003), was a Black Country author of Scottish descent.

Audrey Brettle
BornAlexandra Audrey Kinnon
(1937-02-10)10 February 1937
Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England
Died(2003-09-27)27 September 2003
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England
Pen nameAmy Thomas

Biography

Educated at Halesowen Grammar School, she became a Salvation Army officer;[1] before working for North Warwickshire Borough Council until her retirement.

In retirement, she began to write actively, and was a founder of the North Warwickshire Writers Group. After her death in 2003, her ashes were interred in Greenhaven Woodland Burial Ground. A collection of her writings was published posthumously, under the title The Clydebank Whistle.[2]

gollark: Also, this IRC-based server monitoring thing is surprisingly nonawful.
gollark: Yep!
gollark: Idea: what if ALL strings are to be TLDs, but you have to do some proof-of-work thing to get them?
gollark: Or apioform.expert.
gollark: apioform.services WHEN?!

References
  1. "Tributes" (PDF). Salvationist. London. 6 December 2003. p. 18. OCLC 16509876. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011.
  2. "Librarything.com page on The Clydebank Whistle". Retrieved 6 July 2010.


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