Jean Roberts

Author

Jean Roberts was born in London and raised in Romford, a large town east of London. In 1977, she moved to Colchester, England, a town in the County of Essex in southeast England. She attended college at University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich, England. After a string of dead-end office jobs, she trained and became a social worker, specializing in child protection, a job she loved for 20 years until she took early retirement. Then she took on part-time work for an agency assessing foster parents. Jean also volunteered part-time for ten years for a children's charity and served on its board of trustees. When she gave that up, Adrian, her husband, also retired so they both stopped working simultaneously.
Jean considers herself a “cautiously negative optimist.” Nowadays, she spends a lot of time enjoying her family in a way she wasn't able to when she was working. She travels as much as possible and likes to read, write, and cook.
Jean has written two books about moving to Spain: 1. A Kiss Behind the Castanets: My Love affair with Spain and 2. Life Beyond the Castanets: My Love Affair with Spain. She also blogs about her life in Spain on her website JeanRoberts.me.uk.