Author, editor, mum of three, wife of one, unashamed coffee snob.

I grew up in Dartmouth, Devon where I caught an actual ferry to school and learned the skill of getting up, dressed, breakfasted and out of the door in under 30 minutes*.  I then went to Royal Holloway University where I met my best friend, future husband and got my BA in English and Creative Writing. Upon returning to Devon in 2008, I lucked upon a job as a local newspaper reporter and thus launched a wholly unexpected career in journalism. A couple of years later I went to Cardiff University to study a PGDip in Broadcast Journalism (that’s where the 2010 – 11 journalism era of posts on this blog come from). After that I dabbled in radio before landing a job at a b2b trades magazine. 

After finding myself unexpectedly knocked up in my mid-twenties I gave birth to my first daughter in September 2013 and, for a while, my writing career took a swerve into the mum-blog stratosphere. Whilst on maternity leave I also took the opportunity to try my hand at fiction writing and spent the next few years grappling on and off with a young adult novel which, despite many re-drafts, several literary agents quite liking it (but sadly not quite liking it enough) and earning a place on the 2016 Mslexia Children’s Novel Competition long-list, sadly never made it to publication. My partner and I got engaged, moved house and had possibly the wettest wedding known to the Westcountry before our second daughter was born in the summer of 2017. Our son arrived in April 2019 and I temporarily stopped trying to juggle motherhood with my job as a now-freelance journalist and embraced the lifestyle of the Stay At Home Mum Trying To Become A Published Author.

My debut published novel, The Girl with the Green Eyes, book one of soft sci-fi trilogy Take Her Back, was long-listed for The Bridport Prize in 2020. It was published by Bad Press Ink on November 5, 2021, featured on Times Radio with Mariella Frostrup and even became an Amazon bestseller for a short time. Its follow up, The Child Left in the Dark, was published in 2022. The third book, The Voice that Twists the Knife launched in 2024. 

In September 2022 I hung up my stay-at-home-mum hat, de-lurked from the Mumsnet forums and took a job as a freelance Content Editor** specialising in writing, editing and optimising parenting articles, guides, reviews and all things related to making life easier for parents.

*I could absolutely, 100% still achieve this if I didn’t have so many offspring underfoot and didn’t suffer from the aforementioned coffee snobbery.

**If you’ve made it all the way here because you are on the hunt for my Mumsnet contact details – please feel free to drop me a message here and I will try my best to get back to you ASAP!