My wake-up CALL

Meet three women whose lives pivoted in a way they could never have imagined

WORDS: ALICE GREBOT AND STEPHANIE CLARKSON (REV MCKAY).

‘Volunteering in Zimbabwe was my “eureka” moment’ Julie Lovegrove, 61, is a professional photographer with a passion for wildlife, fascinating places and landscapes. She leads photographic holidays (juliesadventures.co.uk), lives in North Somerset and has three grown-up children. I didn’t ever know what I wanted to be when I grew up so, for pretty much all my adult life, I’ve fallen into jobs, including admin and bookkeeping, which have mostly been fine, but that’s all. I’d always had a hankering to travel to exotic and far-flung places, and ‘do something’ with animals. I used to dream of being brave and adventurous like Joy Adamson, Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey. The film Born Free had grabbed my imagination as a young teen. Ever since then, I’d wanted to go to Africa and…

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Woman & Home (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2021

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