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+ About Sue:

Sue Whatmough’s 25 year career as a casting director and later a producer in theatre, films and TV, came to an abrupt end when her then husband, Terry Barber, was involved in a serious car accident. He was left physically and mentally handicapped. She found herself re-cast as his carer.

A Francophile for many years and far more suited to the lack of stress and materialism of the French lifestyle, she chose to bring her damaged husband to live in a small hamlet in Tarn et Garonne. It was a decision she’s never regretted.

She’s been through several ‘incarnations’ in the 30 years since then. Firstly as a brocanteurthen, following a move to the Lot, she retrained in computer graphics in Toulouse and set up a small graphic design business. After Terry moved back to the UK to be looked after by his brother, she spent several months in Africa helping her new partner, Leaf, and his friend, Lewe, set up a hostel for Aids orphans.

Back in France she finished her first book ‘NO COPY OF THE SCRIPT – The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Casting Director’ and became a correspondent for THE FRENCH NEWS monthly newspaper and later THE FRENCH WEEK.

She and Leaf moved to Hautes-Pyrénées in 2005 where she was approached by ANGLOINFO to write a blog. She happily accepted and over five years completed around 400 blogs and her second book, ‘HANGING ONTO HOPE – The Long Journey Home’, was published.

She regularly visited and remained married to Terry, who was in a nursing home, until he died in his sleep in the spring of 2015.

On her birthday later that year, Leaf proposed, and Sue became Mrs Susan Fielding.

To contact Sue, email her on: doodah.online74@gmail.com