Bernardine Bishop

Bernardine Bishop (1939-2013) was an English novelist, teacher and psychotherapist. In 1960 she was the youngest witness in the Lady Chatterley Trial. Her first novel, Perspectives, was published by Hutchinson in 1961, and her second Playing House in 1963. During a half-century break between publishing her first two novels and her third, the 2013 Costa prize-nominated Unexpected Lessons In Love, she brought up a family, taught, and practised as a psychotherapist.