Tom Percival

It could be said that Tom Percival had an unusual childhood in a remote and beautiful part of South Shropshire: he grew up in a dilapidated and draughty caravan, without electricity or heating. However you look at it, those formative years led him to writing and painting. After trying his hand at living in several big cities, he decided he always belonged in the countryside, and now lives on the edge of Rodborough Common, in Gloucestershire, with his girlfriend and their two young sons.