On Swallows' Wings - Pendlebury, Lesley
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Mental health was not something you talked about openly in the 1960s, but Lesley Hughes was determined to beat the anxiety that plagued her.

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Mental health was not something you talked about openly in the 1960s, but Lesley Hughes was determined to beat the anxiety that plagued her.
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Born on the borders of England and Wales in 1943, Lesley was, from an early age, led by a burgeoning passion for the underdog, the unfortunate and the displaced. She took a social science degree at Birmingham University, specialising in the African diaspora. Moving to North London's trendy Crouch End in the late sixties, rather than embrace the excitement of the age, she looked on from the side lines, a dreamer, deep in thought. The roads to life, love and career were blighted by an unexplained anxiety that led her to admit herself to the once notorious Bethlem mental hospital for several months. Despite being denied the treatment for which she had hoped, it was here that Lesley began her metamorphosis into the strong, capable woman she remains, still in demand in a range of voluntary mentoring and legal roles, despite being in her eighties. Her highly successful professional life began almost by accident when a day's work as a temporary typist turned into a career in general litigation, eventually specialising in family law, and as a partner in a Holborn law firm. Whilst family has always been important to her, Lesley was, sadly, unable to have children. Today, widowed for seven years after a happy twenty-three-year marriage to Alistair, she lives in leafy Chiswick, loved and supported by children, friends and people who regard her as family and to whom she is Mummy, Mum or Grandma. Coming to creative writing in recent years, she now spends many hours each week involved in online classes, writing poetry and reflective essays.The church is an important part of her life, and she has become course chaplain for The Diocese of London Christian Studies course.