Elizabeth Mostyn is a scientist, novelist, and phenomenologist. She began her writing career at the age of five years when she swapped her swing for a typewriter. Then she made illustrated magazines for her younger brother and sister. Some of these were not at all childish.
Elizabeth’s first job was as a junior clerk in a travel agency – where she was part of the huge increase in British people’s travelling abroad. During the ten years of her rise to travel management, she learned to deal with hotels not being finished in time, travel companies going bankrupt, and clients who had had a lovely time. She undertook a lot of foreign travel, which broadened her mind and turned her into an internationalist and Francophile.
For the next ten years (it always seems to be about that length of time), she was a partner, with her sister, in an interior design business. She learned to sew, embroider, sell exquisite things involving velvet, and was able to put her previous skills of office management and double entry book-keeping to good use.
In the latter part of her business career, Elizabeth worked for her A levels part-time and, in 1988, became a mature student at the University of St Andrews, where she studied experimental pathology (the science of disease processes, including neuroscience).
After graduation with a BSc., Elizabeth was employed by dementia charities for over 10 years, during which she worked directly with people with all forms of dementia, trained workers and medical professionals, and wrote a wide variety of articles and training materials.
In 2003, Elizabeth took the opportunity to travel to Tanzania to undertake an exploratory dementia project, staying in the Mara region for 3 weeks and visiting Dar-es-Salaam and Arusha to talk to doctors and families of those with dementia.
In 2015, her master’s thesis, entitled, “A Phenomenological Examination of the Delusions of People with Dementia with Lewy Bodies or Parkinson’s Disease Dementia” was sustained at the University of Aberdeen.
Elizabeth has been writing full time since then, so far publishing a standalone novel set in St Andrews (Wisp), and 4 volumes of a 9 volume series – The Phenomenological Detective – The Only True Remedy, The Heights of Abraham, The Arc of Blood, and Jacqueline’s Tears (5 more to come).
She has many other projects in her piled-high in-tray.
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