Rustington author’s rainbow of hope

Author Wendy Hughes, from Rustington, has teamed up with Polish author Madlen Namro for her latest book Rainbow Stories: Facts and Something to Do.

Wendy turned to writing in the late 1980s as an outlet for her frustration, after years of ill health, and before she was finally diagnosed with Stickler syndrome, which affects joints and connective tissue and in some cases can cause facial disfigurement.

All proceeds from the book will be donated to the Stickler Syndrome Support Group, which Wendy founded in 1989.

Rainbow Stories is aimed at children aged eight and over to read alone, or younger, if parents are reading to the child. It includes eight stories, one based on each colour of the rainbow and an animal, with the eighth about rainbows and parrots.

Each story includes facts relating to the stories, and something for the children to do. The book is highly illustrated by a young artist, Samantha Groom and the book was well received at its launch in Cambridge last week.

Wendy has had 26 books published to date and copies of Rainbow Stories can be obtained from The Stickler Syndrome Support Group, PO Box 3351, Littlehampton, BN16 9GB price £7.50 post free.

Cheques should be made payable to Stickler Syndrome Support Group.