David Matthews
David Matthews was born in the middle of the last century to a Quaker father and a mother who left the Church of England to become a Jehovah's Witness. After a number of years "in the wilderness", he found himself back in the Anglican Church, active in the local community. David Matthews had a fulfilling career as a teacher, including eleven years heading a comprehensive school in Croydon, where he still lives with his wife and sons. He now feels he may devote a significant amount of time to transforming ideas, hatched over countless summer vacations, into novels, poems and plays. He enjoys spending time in south-west France where he is renovating a stone cottage with an idyllic view, and making a garden for it.
