Hi,
I'm Rachel. I'm a GP and amateur creative writer. I love writing about the grittiness of the seemingly mundane, the ordinary, and what, on the surface appears to be non-descript. Ordinary people fascinate me. I find them so interesting, especially when you find out that they are not ordinary at all.
My other half and I are both keyworkers. During lockdown, we found working and home-schooling our three spirited boys a challenge. But however bad it got for us, I kept imagining how bad it must have been and what it must have been like for colleagues working in the hospital in the midst of the pandemic. A whole fictional hospital came into my mind and I felt compelled to write about the people who worked there. So far, I've published three books on amazon: 'The Healthcare Assistant: Escape to Lockdown', 'The Porter: Retribution in Lockdown (longlisted for the adaptation from book to screenwriting award in the 2021 Pageturner awards), and 'The Cleaner: Evasion in Lockdown.
For 'The Cleaner', I assisted my local library with a competition where the local year 9 school children wrote the end to the chapter where Kyle becomes embroiled in the gang. This exercise has now been adapted as part of the curriculum for the year 9 youth and crime module at my children's high school. Probably my proudest achievement.
Sometimes, when I walk down the street my mouth drops open because I actually feel like I've seen Ann, Dave, or one of the other characters in the books. So I thought I'd have a go at screenwriting.
Meryl is a retired detective who lives in the small village she grew up in in Wales. She is related to a lot of people and isn't happy with what has happened to the place where she grew up. She has lived in my mind for a few years now and I thought that it was time to bring her to life to see what she does when faced with criminal activities going on right under her nose.
Thank you for reading and good luck to everybody who has made it this far.
Rachel
