Jane Wilson-Howarth

Jane Wilson-Howarth BSc (hons), CF, MSc (Oxon), BM, DCH, DCCH, DFSRH, FRSTM&H, FFTM RCPS (Glasg) is a British physician, lecturer and author.

[4] During cave exploration in the UK she made extensive collections of invertebrates to document the species living in lightless environments.

The Nepal connection led to a veterinary research job and she wrote a thesis about rabbit parasites for an MSc from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

She was employed on various child survival and hygiene promotion projects in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, India and Nepal.

[9][10] She helped provide clinical care to Syrian refugees in Greece for Médecins du Monde / Doctors of the World in 2016.

[11] Wilson-Howarth lived in Nepal from 1993 until 1998 and then moved back there in 2017 where she worked as a volunteer writing clinical guidelines for Nepali paramedics and mentoring clinicians in remote mountain villages through the charity PHASE (Practical Help Achieving Self Empowerment).

[12][13] Dervla Murphy, Eric Newby, Hilary Bradt, Gerald Durrell, David Attenborough, Joe Wilson (her father).

Wilson-Howarth spent six months on an overland trip to the Himalayan region; this was with a small team intent on finding new caves in Pakistan, India and Nepal and documenting what creatures lived inside them.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows (2012) is a poignant memoir[30][31] set in Cambridge and Nepal; it has received praise in the press;[32] a second edition was published in the UK in October 2012 and the artist who designed the cover was featured on BBC TV earlier that year.

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows was also chosen for The National Year of Reading and by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire for its A Book a Day in May project.

Wilson-Howarth's first novel Snowfed Waters was self-published in the UK early in 2014 and then was launched in 2017 by the Delhi-based publisher Speaking Tiger.

Other members include biographer Clare Mulley, children's authors Victor Watson, Rosemary Hayes and Penny Speller.

Amy Corzine, Rosemary Hayes, Victor Watson, and Wilson-Howarth collaborated on a feature on writing for children for Juno magazine.