Joy Bounds is a writer and lives in Suffolk. Her interests, which are reflected in her writing, are history and the issues which affect women.

In addition to cookbook writing, she has written a novel, Far from Home, which tells the story of Joan of Arc. Her local history book, A Song of Their Own, focuses on women's rights and ordinary women in and around Ipswich standing up for what they believed.

Joy also gives talks about local women and suffragettes’ activities, and in her spare time she loves to sing and work with other women on various projects.

www.joybounds.co.uk