Elaine has a life-long association with horses and ponies, going back to her childhood riding with the Pony Club and local Hunt In Glamorgan, South Wales. All her life she wanted her own horse, but had to wait until she was 43. Now she has taken early retirement from her academic and management career they are a major part of her life; one from which she is constantly learning. Her equine interests lie in showing, breeding, classical riding and natural methods of backing and producing horses and ponies. She is also a qualified EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner specialising in equine EFT.

When not with the horses and ponies you will find Elaine running the family business or writing. Her first novel - Eight of Cups - written with Marion Duffy, her long-time friend and co-author of their previous non-fiction books, was published in December 2008. Together they write under the pseudonym Mirren Jones. See

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