Mary was a 'free thinker', a compass influenced by a million distracting metal parts. Her needle veered haphazardly, pointing to nowhere in particular. But on 23rd April 1978, at around two minutes past five, she found the magnetic North - and went from nowhere to God in 30 seconds. The sometimes funny, sometimes spectacular and often moving events that followed have been shaping her life ever since. Those events are still happening and, 30 years later, she is still amazed. Mary Frances was brought up in Nottingham, the youngest of seven children. She came to Bristol in 1961 with her husband, was divorced in 1990 and moved to North Somerset. Sadly, he died in 2008, but their two sons still live in Bristol, both involved in the music industry. Until recently a local correspondent and feature writer with her local newspaper, she now devotes herself entirely to writing books.