ABOUT THE AUTHOR - THE MAGIC WATER BOTTLE

Shirley Mitchell is 75 years of age, and has a teaching degree.
Shirley taught in Derbyshire, the East End of London,
Essex and Oxfordshire. She has been married twice - divorced,
then widowed. She has two children and four grandchildren.
Ms. Mitchell lives just outside of Paris where she received excellent
(though she reports, grisly) treatment for her second bout
of breast cancer at the Institut Curie.