In 1969, she authored A Life of Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan and The Gulf: Arabian Western Approaches on Middle Eastern events ten years later.
[3] After the death of her father in a car accident, she moved back to Britain and was educated at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire before matriculating at a finishing school in Genoa.
[2] Just before the Second World War, she again returned to Britain to join the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry as a driver before taking on intelligence duties ferrying influential individuals across London for the following three years.
[1][3] She co-authored her first book, Smelling The Breezes, with her husband Ralph Izzard in 1959,[2][4] and was republished as A Walk in the Mountains in the United States the following year.
[5] The book Izzard wrote was about the two-month 300 mi (480 km) camping trek she and her family took through the High Lebanon mountains by donkey in 1957.
She also reported on the Partition of India,[2] bringing up her family amongst the Egyptian revolution of 1952, and life in British Cyprus (1878–1960) in 1960, as it transitioned to an independent state.
[2] Ten years later, Izzard wrote, The Gulf: Arabian Western Approaches, which was a first-hand account of the rise of the nation-states Bahrain, Kuwait and the Emirates set against Saudi Arabia's restrictive Wahhabism.