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Biography Judith Cameron discovered writing after a career of nearly twenty years in education. When her elder daughter Sophie was 17, she fell ill with a rare disease of the brain, encephalitis lethargica (EL). Judith could no longer easily work outside the home and entered what she saw as a parallel world of caring and the chronically ill. Wanting this marginalised society to be noticed, she approached different newspapers offering to write about her experiences. This led to a regular column, ‘Who Cares?’ for the Guardian. Since then, she has written about a wide range of issues and topics from diversity in farming and sheep shearing to Victorian educational methods and the French health system. Among others, she has interviewed, William Boyd, Doris Lessing, Margaret Attwood, Andrea Levy and Courtney Pine. She has written for magazines, regional and national newspapers including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and Good Housekeeping. Her photographs have appeared in the Bath Chronicle and France Magazine. If Judith discovers something of interest, she argues that she should be able to make it engaging to others. However, her prime passion remains with issues related to family life, caring and relationships. To this end, her first novel, ‘If this is a Life’ is a fictionalised account of life with her daughter Sophie until her death aged just 24, in 2006. She has recently completed a book for Help the Aged, 'Caring for Parents in Later Life', which was published in spring 2008. Judith has also been invited onto the Standing Comission for Carers. This is part of the government's initiative to offer carers in the community a fairer deal. Judith lives with her husband and three surviving children.
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