Hello
This is me on a bad hair day. Many years ago I used to spend far too much time on my hair, trying to make naturally curly waves look sleeky-smooth, but with age comes a little wisdom, hopefully, and now I have more imporant things to do than trying to straighten hair.
So I leave my curls to do what they want nowadays and I'm free to do what I want... write.
And when I'm not writing?
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I read, tend my garden, spend time with my family.
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That's the gossipy bit over now. Below you will find a short bio of my life and how writing fits into it.
My Story
I’ve been writing fiction for more than forty years, though it still feels like I’m just getting started, especially in these last few years when I made a firm decision to concentrate on historical fiction. I began in women’s magazines, publishing romance and slice‑of‑life stories under three pen names—a wonderfully flexible way to write while raising a family and learning my craft.
I was born in Brighton and grew up in the south of England, surrounded by the landscapes that continue to provide a background for my work. As an only child of older parents, I spent countless hours reading, imagining, and inventing stories in between dance classes, music lessons, and schoolwork. Looking back, it was the perfect apprenticeship for a novelist.
After leaving school, I set my sights on journalism, but life nudged me in a different direction. I followed my second love—the theatre—and moved to London. Those years of performing and watching people from the wings turned out to be invaluable training for the writer I would eventually become.
Today, I write full‑length novels, endeavouring to fill them with believable and loveable characters, strong romantic threads, rich emotional depth, and a deep sense of place. My stories often unfold within family sagas and are set across the British Isles in the landscapes that have shaped me from the very beginning.