Lorraine Gibson is an award-winning journalist of 20 years, who cut
her writing teeth on her local paper in Bournemouth. Inspired by
her beautiful Dorset surroundings, she is widely published in
regional and national titles and is now a freelance writer, with a
passion for local history.
Living close to Brownsea Island, she became intrigued by its role
in the birth of the Scouting movement while writing a feature about
it. After delving deeper into the world of the Boy Scouts and their
famous founder, the extraordinary and astoundingly-eccentric Robert
Baden-Powell, she was hooked. When, in the summer of 2020, she
covered a fight between Scouts and protesters, hell-bent on
throwing Baden-Powell's statue off Poole Quay, directly opposite
Brownsea, there was no going back.
Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography is her first book and it is, like
its subject, thought-provoking, contrary and full of ripping yarns.
Lorraine lives in Bournemouth with her husband, two teenage
daughters and Florence, a rather rotund cat.
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