Publisher, book packager and consultancy firm.

DESCRIPTION:
By the time she had reached twenty-one, Joy Hunter had worked in the Offices of the War Cabinet in Churchill’s underground war rooms in preparation for D-Day 1944; been included in the Three Power Conference at Potsdam in 1945 between the victorious allies, Great Britain, USA and the Soviet Union; and then went to Washington for the post-war Bretton Woods agreement. She then joined the staff of the Archbishop of Canterbury, working at Lambeth
Palace.

Joy had a traditional schooling. Her marriage to an architect in 1949 was sadly short-lived due to his early death leaving her with three children under six. She had to work, to support her young family. A fascinating career developed, in teaching, the NHS and Age UK – to name just three – and in 2009 she was involved in an exhibition commemorating the opening of the
Churchill underground War Rooms, which created much publicity. She was awarded an MBE
in 2013.

AUTHOR:
Joy Hunter was a vicar’s daughter and attended secretarial college which led to her fascinating and full life. She was awarded an MBE in 2013 for her charity work. She lives in Guildford, Surrey.
‘My life has been an incredible journey and I hope you enjoy reading about it.’ Joy Hunter

PUBLICITY:
The author has many contacts with local Surrey newspapers; local charities; the Cabinet War
Rooms exhibition in Whitehall, London. She is expert in PR and publicity.

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DESCRIPTION:
In 1958 Nina decided to explore Italy; although she had only £3 in the world and no job to go to, she had just the promise of a mattress on the floor of a friend’s apartment.
This is the fascinating account of how she virtually fell into the movie biz in Rome. Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni were huge stars and the biggest star of all at the box office was Alberto Sordi, for whom Nina unexpectedly found herself working. She also played leading roles in the dubbing of foreign films into English. She met stars like David Niven, Peter Ustinov and Jack Palance.
Later, when she married a film editor, she lived and worked in Toronto, Madrid and her beloved Rome. She writes like a dream, so that you are right there with her, and gain an insight into the golden age of European films in the sixties and seventies. When the movie biz hit a crisis, she and her husband moved to Shropshire and lived the “good life”.
But that was not the end of the story. More changes were to come, and more adventures…

AUTHOR:
Nina Rootes worked on hundreds of films, as a dubber, language coach and translator for books written in French and Italian. She now lives in Ludlow, Shropshire, where she acted in amateur dramatics and now writes and looks back on a roller-coaster life.

PUBLICITY:
To be reviewed in film magazines and in the film pages of major newspapers.

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