This Sapphic anthology of short stories, published by Butterworth Books, launched in 2025 at the Queer the Shelves event in Nottingham, features my first published short story.
An Aging Romance is a frustration of what menopause does to an age gap relationship - as one sails out of the murky fog of forgetfulness, the other drowns in a heat haze of hormonal sweat.
My number one cardinal rule is: Don’t overshare on social media. Use the trauma in your life to inform your writing. Sadly, I’m not much of a rule-follower so my life haemorrhages out into everything; my writing, my social media posts, or idle chit-chat in a supermarket queue to any stranger who is too bored or busy to move to another checkout. I have verbal diarrhoea and no filter.
I exfoliate the trivial aspects of my life, shedding mumbles of discontent as I field endless calls and tasks,...
Life of Riley is a contemporary women’s fiction novel set on a Cumbrian island where Riley, now 48, grew up as an angry foster child. Riley returns to look after her ageing foster mother, Fran, who does not want to be moved into a care home. But Riley has always been a nomadic outsider – can she feel at home in a small, fractured community with a very long memory? Her developing friendship with Anya, the nature warden, is put to the test when she helps Sharon, the island landlady, attract...