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.

For the last five years I’ve designed and taught creative writing courses for Writers & Artists 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 am working on a triptych of novels exploring attachment trauma, addiction, PTSD, intimacy, mothering and loving.

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.

For more information and if you are wondering if you’ve also been affected, please see the great work being done at www.seenandheard.org.uk

As a mentor and editor I’m particularly 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, grotesque.