about
I grew up in the Midlands with my parents and younger brother. I always wanted to be a writer and got my first typewriter when I was ten. For a while, I was going to be a pilot and learnt to fly a plane before I could drive a car. Now, I'm scared of heights. Over the years, I have also been a private investigator, bar maid, car cleaner, fruit picker, accounts clerk, nursery nurse, waitress...
So I was writing, travelling, meeting my future husband, travelling some more, writing some more and then I had three children (not all at once), lived in Australia and the USA, came back to England and bought an old farmhouse to renovate. We're still renovating after 7 years. (Now we've started again in an old town house!)
In 2003, I won a short story competition and  subsequently had a genre novel published by a small independent press. Now I have an agent and Headline are my publishers with my debut mainstream novel BLOOD TIES being released in hardback 5th April 2007 and paperback 20th September 2007. UNSPOKEN, my next novel, will follow in 2008.