Erin Pizzey was born in China in 1939, captured by the Japanese, held hostage and left on the last boat out of Shanghai in 1942. Her father was a diplomat and her turbulent parents roamed the Far East dragging their children behind them prior to her arrival in England in 1946. It is no surprise that Erin opened the first refuge in the world for battered women and children in 1971. She published Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear in 1974, the first book on domestic violence but she fell foul of the feminist movement when she declared that both men and women could be violent.
When all her non-fiction was out of print, she turned to writing fiction where her readers could follow her work and her philosophy.
Erin has also contributed to The New Statesman, The Sunday Times and Cosmopolitan as well as many international journals and newspapers. She has a passion for life and for love and is an amazingly powerful speaker who speaks from her heart and not from her head. Erin has spoken to numerous men's domestic violence victim groups.
Erin has lived in China, Persia, Beirut, Singapore, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the USA the Cayman Islands, Tuscany and now Twickenham and has travelled the rest of the world in her quest to discover who we love, how we love and why we love as well as setting up refuges. Her hobbies include reading, writing, cooking, antiques, the violin, gardening, wine, food and travel.
More recently, Erin opened first Arab refuge for victims of domestic violence in Bahrain in March 2007.
Awards include the International Order of Volunteers for Peace, Diploma Of Honour (Italy) 1981, Nancy Astor Award for Journalism 1983, World Congress of Victimology (San Francisco) 1897 - Distinguished Leadership Award and the St. Valentino Palm d’Oro International Award for Literature, February 14th, 1994, Italy.
When all her non-fiction was out of print, she turned to writing fiction where her readers could follow her work and her philosophy.
Erin has also contributed to The New Statesman, The Sunday Times and Cosmopolitan as well as many international journals and newspapers. She has a passion for life and for love and is an amazingly powerful speaker who speaks from her heart and not from her head. Erin has spoken to numerous men's domestic violence victim groups.
Erin has lived in China, Persia, Beirut, Singapore, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the USA the Cayman Islands, Tuscany and now Twickenham and has travelled the rest of the world in her quest to discover who we love, how we love and why we love as well as setting up refuges. Her hobbies include reading, writing, cooking, antiques, the violin, gardening, wine, food and travel.
More recently, Erin opened first Arab refuge for victims of domestic violence in Bahrain in March 2007.
Awards include the International Order of Volunteers for Peace, Diploma Of Honour (Italy) 1981, Nancy Astor Award for Journalism 1983, World Congress of Victimology (San Francisco) 1897 - Distinguished Leadership Award and the St. Valentino Palm d’Oro International Award for Literature, February 14th, 1994, Italy.
International founder of refuges for battered women and children, international author, published poet, playwright and raconteur Erin is an outstanding after dinner speaker as well as a passionate speaker on a variety of subjects including parenting, the penal system, the elderly and much more.
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