I was born in Berlin, and grew up in the Army, moving from place to place.
All of the work I've done in my adult life has been in the worlds of media/entertainment/storytelling. I started in the office of the Anna Scher Children’s Theatre in Islington in the early 1980s’, leaving to move to a small Yorkshire village and have a family. When my four children were old enough, I went back to school and took a BA in English and Related Literature at the University of York. On leaving I spent a year as Assistant to the Editor on the Fish Friers’ Review magazine in Leeds, then being offered an unpaid internship in Covent Garden, moved into documentary making and spent ten years commuting between York and London. Over the years I have worked in production for all the major broadcasters and made documentary programmes, for both tv and radio, that have been shown around the world.
I started writing in 2006 and am currently working on my fifth novel. In 2020 I completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck.
