Vikki Pitcher was born in Dorset in 1943. After her seventh birthday, she lived a largely nomadic life as the daughter of a military man, as a WRAF Officer, as a married woman, and...view moreVikki Pitcher was born in Dorset in 1943. After her seventh birthday, she lived a largely nomadic life as the daughter of a military man, as a WRAF Officer, as a married woman, and for thirteen years on her own. She returned to England from Kashmir and then Spain, and settled her beloved Dorset in 2009, in the beautiful Blackmore Vale which inspired her to put together some of her writings about the equally beautiful Vale of Kashmir, both have been described as ‘Heaven on Earth’. This story would be nothing without her companion, Frodo, an Irish Setter of singular and indomitable character, who followed her everywhere in the fields around the lakes and on mountain and river treks, attracting attention and interest.view less