I’m a writer and an editor and mentor for Bloomsbury. My first two novels We All Ran Into the Sunlight, 2011 and Season to Taste or How To Eat Your Husband, 2014 were published while I was working as a journalist at The Times. I then became the Arts editor of Prospect magazine but left journalism shortly after to write full time.

For the last ten years I’ve designed and taught creative writing courses, FIND YOUR VOICE and DEVELOP YOUR BOOK IDEA for Writers & Artists at Bloomsbury Plc and received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund and two awards, including a Develop Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England. Most recently I was given a Work in Progress award from the Society of Authors and the Authors Foundation. In 2025 I co-wrote a screenplay, How To Eat Your Husband, and founded Devon Writing Retreats where i have been hosting writing and yoga retreats on a farm in mid Devon.

More recently, and through my own therapeutic practices with yoga, EMDR, EFT, and Somatic Experiencing, I am exploring writing and voice through the lens of trauma and the disassociation that causes so much damage to and by those who were sent into exile as children through the British boarding school system.

My literary obsession is to express that which seeps, bubbles, whimpers and explodes out of the intersection of the domestic, claustrophobic, repressive and bourgeois with the grotesque, surreal, wild, animal. I am working on a triptych of novels set in London, suburbia and the countryside.

As a mentor and editor I’m keen to work with people exploring all literary forms and pushing up against the edges, rebel-writers, those taking risks in fiction and memoir, writing the dark and difficult, the painful, funny, queer, strange. Literary heroes include Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector, Flannery O’Connor, Shirley Jackson, Katherine Anne-Porter, Annie Ernaux, George Saunders, Max Porter and many million brilliant others.

For more information about my writing, working with me, screen rights, courses, workshops etc, please use the contact form on this site.