Marshall Cavendish Author Profile

Name: Anne Hawkins

DOB: 31.1.56

Birthplace: Bramhall Cheshire

First job: Part-time - cutting and serving cheese
at Bhs Full-time - apprentice with the
Dowty Group (engineering)

Current job: Preparing and presenting
a spectrum of training courses to (predominantly)
non-accountants on matters financial

Home: Cheltenham

Car: A very cost-efficient Focus!

Favourite book: A History of Modern Britain – Andrew Marr

Favourite film: Pride and Prejudice (BBC version with Colin Firth)

Favourite music: Very eclectic – Dire Straits, Les Miserables / Phantom, Elgar

Favourite gadget: Satnav

Favourite website: Multimap – until I had satnav

Best holiday: Palawan islands

Career highlight: usually the eventual outcome of the lowlights of being
thrown into situations without the requisite guidance/training

Normal working day: There isn’t one – one incoming mail or phonecall
can take me in a whole new direction

Downtime: Volunteer teaching assistant with adult numeracy classes.
Volunteer with local charity working with families in need of support.
Facilitator/administrator/taxi driver for a family of hyper-actives.

Best piece of advice: You have to work hard at being lucky.
(The harder I work the luckier I get. Samuel Goldwyn)

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