Mandy Smith

Welcome! My name is Mandy Smith and I would like to invite you into the Pink Fluffy-Cloud-land of High Flying, where glamour and escapism are all side effects of the job. So whether you are looking to be an airhostess yourself or you are just interested in what we get up to; Cabin Fever may be of interest to you.This is a little bit of a guide book on how to be an airhostess, with all its trials and tribulations and a little bit about the escapades of a group of friends who help each other through the good and bad times, that go hand in hand with their search for love - from city to city and up in the skies. All of the names have been changed to disguise the guilty, the lovely and the naughty. In this series of stories based on real life events which have happened to us all around the globe at one time or another in our career at Virgin Atlantic Airways. I have been very lucky to live my life's ambition of 'having more fun than everyone else'. Meeting so many amazing people along the way. I am now a wife and a mum and SO happy that I managed to do everything I wanted to do, before settling down and have now surrounded myself with all of these amazing people - my amazing support network of friends, who I could not live without. (You know who you are) Spending the rest of your life with someone is actually an awfully long time... a fact which; had never really entered my head while I was searching for Mr Right. A search that took me around the world quite a few times and yes you guessed it ... he was right here in Beautiful Brighton all along! Cabin Fever has been nominated for The Peoples Book Award this summer & has been in the top 50 of Amazon kindle downloads for July, August and September. Wow ... I never really thought anyone would buy my little book, but I am so glad you all enjoyed my journeys. After an amazing amount of Publicity and interest in Cabin Fever I am now looking forward to the PR slowing down slightly... lots of Breakfast TV, Radio & Newspaper coverage and getting back to reality and the best thing about it all - being able to get on with more writing.I enjoy reading romance & chic lit novels to relax and unwind (when I get 5 mins to myself) or writing poetry. I have always enjoyed writing songs and poetry since Sixth Form College and have recently discovered that one of my songs is still being played by my friends band up north. This made me smile when I heard this by chance from a fellow air hostess who had married this friend, whom Id long lost contact with, as I have very fond memories of cutting classes and sneaking down to the local park with a note pad and a guitar to write in the sun - what a small world it is! Ive had a lot of interest from people for me to write another book, so Im now writing a sequel to Cabin Fever, which is at present 55,000 words in and counting! Lots more stories - some which were left out of the original and a few more for good measure! I look forward to meeting some of you on your travels around the world.... getting up to adventures that could have been inspired from reading my book or even if we only meet on paper....x Happy reading x