Rita Gribble Author

Rita Gribble was born in Stoke-on-Trent in April 1937. The younger of three children, she grew up in a family who loved books, words and writing. She spent thirty-five years in the car industry, working in the accounts office for the same company. Widowed with one daughter, a few years after her husband died in 2001, she began to write Penny's Story, but after being diagnosed with breast cancer she never returned to writing. Then in March 2016, after a long stay in hospital with sepsis and pneumonia, she went to live in an annexe with her daughter and family. In the summer of 2019, while clearing the loft, her daughter found Penny's Story encouraged her mother to finish writing.