Barbara was born in the 1950s in Middlesbrough, a town in North East of England, the eldest of three girls. After leaving school she did various jobs before marrying her husband Wilf Henderson in 1977. She gave birth to 3 children, a girl and then 2 boys. Soon after marring they moved to London and then to various cities in the UK. Over the years she has worked with small children, run playgroups and toddler groups and the Drayton Tufty Club. She was a registered Childminder for over 15 years. In her forties she became a black belt instructor in the martial art of Tae Kwon do.

As the children grew older she went back into further education doing an Access course in English and Psychology including child psychology. She also completed courses in creative writing.

In 2000, she moved to Ghana, West Africa with her husband. Over the next ten years she was kept busy teaching literacy and numeracy to uneducated young mothers, undertaking charity work, visiting schools, orphanages and the cured Lepers village. She worked in the University bead museum and wrote the biography of a local bead maker Nomoda Ebenezer Djaba (Cedi) for the book “The Bead is Constant”.

For several years she served as the project co-ordinator for The British Women’s Association charity group which raised funds through bazaars, raffles and various other ways. She visited villages to see where the money would be best used and met many interesting Ghanaian people through this work.

In Ghana she made many good friends and joined a book group, played the game Mah Jong and the card game, Canasta.

Over the years Barbara has made up many stories for her own children as well as the playgroup children. While Barbara was living in Ghana her daughter Louise -still living in the UK – give birth to two boys James, now 13 and Thomas, eight. This prompted Barbara to write stories for them. Whilst looking out of the window one day at the hens, ducks and guinea fowl that lived in her garden she had an Idea and wrote her first book “Down in Mr Brown’s Garden”.

Now settled back in the UK Barbara is still keeping very busy, she acted as secretary for the Marie Curie nurses fundraising group. This included raising funds through singing in a group, holding stalls at craft fairs, organising coffee mornings etc. Barbara also joined a book group.
Barbara loves to spend as much time as she can with her grandsons, watching them play football and having sleepovers etc but still finds time write.

Her latest work ‘Jane’s Trip to Mars’ was written for her youngest niece, Jane.