Celia Moore

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Celia Moore is the author of the Fox Halt Farm series, a unique series blending romance, suspense, and secrets. Celia lives in Devon in the South West of the United Kingdom and is a keen gardener and runner too always accompanied by her scruffy border x jack russel terrier called Tizzy.

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Celia Moore the short bio:

Born just over 50 years ago between Exeter and Okehampton, Celia has always been creative – from explaining why there are no chocolate biscuits left, to writing glowing particulars for ugly properties. Encouraging people to down a scary abseil to oil painting and photography. She is also training hard for the London Marathon in April 2019, having already raising £2,500 for Macmillan Cancer Support and another £200 each for local charities, FORCE and Hospiscare. If she is honest, she also needs to run to work off some off the calories from all the cake her customers feed her!

Celia Moore (1967-NOW) – the longer version of my biography

In 1967; the year I was born, my parents were living on a small farm near Moretonhampstead (and I have a treasured old photo of my Dad with his two plough horses, Blossom and Pleasant). He used to work the horses on the rocky fields there. He could plough up to an acre a day, and B and P always knew to stop if the plough was about to hit one of the many rocks sticking out of the ground.

Later, we moved to a farm near Whiddon Down and had a small dairy herd. It never made any money and my parents eventually sold it. Dad then worked in the cheese factory in North Tawton. A massive change for him in his fifties but he said he loved the regular wage, lack of worry and set hours – and he loved the camaraderie of his work mates most of all – it is lonely on a farm sometimes.

I left Devon in 1986 to study for my degree in London and then worked for Lloyds Bank in their head offices in London, Bristol and Taunton for 10 years as a Chartered Surveyor.

In 2000, I left the office life behind to start a new adventure in North Wales training to become an outdoor instructor – teaching rock climbing, canoeing, mountaineering, and even skiing. And I climbed everything I could in the beautiful national park. I moved to Somerset in 2002 and started teaching in an outdoor education centre where school groups would come on adventure weekends and weeks. I also taught children excluded from school too and I ran special programmes for children in care. I added more qualifications to my name including archery, rifle shooting and mountain biking. I ended up managing one of the centres. It was fulfilling work – I loved watching the children who weren’t academic shining in front of their classmates as they showed off their new skills etc. The activities also allowed teachers to see some of their pupils in a new light too. The children gained so much.

When, in 2008, I met my husband, it didn’t seem fair to expect him to put up with my all-consuming job. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me – and I gave up my job and came to live with him back in Devon – Home at last! By the way, I had actually been in primary school with Paul but I hadn’t seen him for 26 years when we met up again!

Today, I work for lovely customers keeping their gardens nice, eating their cake and drinking tea. Many have lost their other halves to cancer and with my friendship I feel like what I do now, is wholly appreciated. In winter 2016, I started blacksmithing creating organically inspired items for gardens (sundials, bird feeders, arches etc.) but that is on hold at the moment while I write…

My debut novel was published in November 2017 …and Culmfield Cuckoo its sequel is available from 20 March 2019

Her debut novel FOX HALT FARM is a change-of-life contemporary romance in beautifully described Dartmoor, London, Paris etc over two decades inspired by some of the experiences Celia's life and the people she has encountered along the way. She says, 'I created all the characters in my mind and dreamt up the ways they interact - making up other people's lives is emotive at times but fun!'

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