Linda Daruvala

Linda grew up in Dorset, and fell in love with poetry while studying Thomas Hardy’s poems for O Level. She can still recite some of them! An only child, she has always found solitude a comfortable and creative space to inhabit. She gave her life to the Lord at 18 at teacher training college in Winchester, which is where she also began to write. A love of Jesus, travel, contemplation, quiet, photography and art all enable her to meditate and compose her poetry, reflections and prayers. She is inspired by Ignatian spirituality and new Celtic monasticism, and loves to retreat to ‘thin’ places throughout the UK, especially Holy Island.

Linda was a primary school teacher, and is married to Jung. They live in Surrey and are very proud of their two wonderful adult sons, Pete and Simon. Since being healed from Non Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2010, Linda has particularly relished the fresh blessings and opportunities of each new day.

Linda leads creative workshops in her home church, St Alban’s, Hindhead, and at local retreat centres. She sings in her church worship band and gospel choir, and her joy is to spend time at a little rented beach hut on Hayling Island. She loves listening to God, new travels, sunsets, watercolours and baking lemon drizzle cake!