Janet Lees

Janet Lees is a writer and walker. Her favourite food on a long walk is fish and chips and ice cream. She has worked as a specialist speech and language therapist, school chaplain, community organiser, university researcher and lecturer and barefoot feminist theologian. A member of the Lay Community of St Benedict, she makes vegetable soup for the local warm space in her Derbyshire village and calls her 1980s Bambi camper van the Mobile Chapel of St Scholastica. Originally from a North London...See more

Janet Lees is a writer and walker. Her favourite food on a long walk is fish and chips and ice cream. She has worked as a specialist speech and language therapist, school chaplain, community organiser, university researcher and lecturer and barefoot feminist theologian. A member of the Lay Community of St Benedict, she makes vegetable soup for the local warm space in her Derbyshire village and calls her 1980s Bambi camper van the Mobile Chapel of St Scholastica. Originally from a North London family of fish sellers, she moved to northern England half a lifetime ago and has also lived and worked in South Africa and Kenya. She is an expert on acquired childhood aphasia, a keen observer of the flora, fauna and fungi of the Transpennine Trail in Longdendale, and loves making patchwork quilts. She has been married to Bob for over thirty-three years. See less