My Biography

I have lived in South East Kent my whole life and was born in my parents house close to where I now live. I went to the Folkestone School For Girls where I left with 2 A levels. After leaving school, I spent a year in telesales before joing the Civil Service in 1987 where I've stayed. I met my husband at my 18th birthday party and within 10 minutes of knowing me he was holding my hair while I threw up in the garden. That was the moment I knew he was The One. We were married in 1991 and have two children.

My first book was called The Sweet Shop That Wouldn't Open which I wrote when I was six. It was all about, unsurprisingly, a sweet shop with a door that was stuck in the closed position. Various people arrived and tugged on the door, sometimes all together, until eventually it gave way and they all went in and ate their fill.

This story was probably more about the fantasies of a six year old, having access to as many sweets as I could eat than any literary ambition. But it did teach me that anything I wanted to happen could happen if I was the one deciding the outcome. I still have the book now.

I've been writing stories ever since, although Thanks For Nothing Nick Maxwell is my first full length novel.

A chance meeting with Greg Snow, author of Surface Tension led him to pass a sample of the novel to his agent Laura Morris. Laura agreed to represent me in January 2006 and to my stupefied delight, we got the contract with Transworld later that year.

My second novel, Three Men And A Maybe is released in April 2009 and I have just finished my third which is with Laura now.