ABOUT
Sophie Waterhouse was born in London and grew up mainly with her head in a book or staring into the canopies of trees and moonlit night skies from a bedroom under the roof. Reading Carson McCullers made her want to write. Reading the Greek myths as told by Roger Lancelyn Green and Nathaniel Hawthorne made her want to go to Greece. She prepared by studying O and A Level Ancient Greek.
She got to Crete in the mid ’80s and was frankly disappointed that at first glance it was not as mythic as she had imagined. A visit to Rhodes in the ’90s prompted a closer look and a change of life. She lived on the island for five years and the seeds of the Vangelis Skouras mystery trilogy were sewn in daily experience and encounter. Years living in America and a return to London never quite dimmed the remembered light of Greece and in 2008 a first trip back to Rhodes, followed by many more, resulted in the slow genesis of the books.
Drinking Greek coffee at the kitchen table while dreaming of the island remains a favourite activity.