![]() ![]() She enjoyed imagining what it would be like to be a Viking living amongst dragons. ![]() Cressida's father would tell stories around the campfire about the Vikings and legends of dragons. The island where the family called their summer home was also the first of the British Isles that the Vikings had invaded, and many Viking ruins still exist there. By the time she was nine years old, her parents had built a stone house and her father had bought a boat, so they could stay all summer.Ĭowell now lives in London and is married to her husband, Simon, and has three children: her daughters Maisie and Clementine, and her son Alexander. There was no electricity, and the family lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and camped in tents for two weeks while there. Her businessman father loved the wilderness, so every summer he'd take his family to a small, uninhabited and silent island in the Inner Hebrides archipelago, which is off the west coast of Scotland. While there, she also enjoyed exploring the old yew forest nearby, where she searched for sprites and fairies. The fort's huge size inspired many local stories about giants, which always fascinated her. ![]() On weekends she visited her grandmother in Sussex (a suburban county just outside London), where there was an Iron Age hill fort. ![]() Cressida grew up in a tall terraced house in central London. ![]()
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