Like many people, I’ve dreamed of being a writer ever since I was young and practiced my craft telling tall tales and filling notebooks with ideas, dreams and scribbles. But I didn’t realise that you could actually grow up and be a novelist.

After graduating with a degree in History from Cambridge University (which features heavily in my second book) I did the next best thing (in my mind) and became a journalist, writing about everything from soap operas (I still have an encyclopaedic knowledge of EastEnders and Home and Away) to fashion, from British weather to Scandinavian parenting. I was lucky enough to travel the world but along the way, I fell slightly out of love with being a journalist. Journalism is all about getting the facts down on paper without the emotion; it was the emotion I wanted to write about.

I started writing my first novel after I had my daughter and my husband was working abroad. Although The Ceylon Wife was never published (it’s still under the bed!), I kept writing. My second completed novel won the Emirates Literature Festival’s Montegrappa Award and I secured a two-book deal with Simon and Schuster. My Best Friend’s Murder was published in January 2020 and my second book, The Reunion, will be published in July 2021.

 Currently, I live in Perth with my husband, my daughter and our puppy, a beautiful basset hound that I’m totally obsessed by. When I’m not writing, I love editing other people’s work (call it my natural nosiness), writing opinion pieces, running, drinking hot chocolate and devouring books.