Throughout this somewhat aimless career path I spent lunchtimes writing stories, occasional poetry and one play - a spoof pantomime called Drac and the Beanstalk. I returned to novel-writing in 2004, determined to finish Kill-Grief, and it was accepted for publication by Picnic at the beginning of 2008.
I currently work part time as a publications editor for a charity focused on the Middle East, and spend the rest of the time looking after my two-year-old son and working on my second book. Provisionally titled For the Love of Freaks, it is about a struggling young sideshow exhibitor and a charlatan doctor in Victorian Liverpool.
I was born in Bromborough, Wirral, in 1975, later moving to Irby and then to Buckinghamshire.
After scraping together a few A-Levels I went to Keele University in 1994, where
I studied English and History, specialising in 18th-century social history.
My first attempt at Kill-Grief began during my final exams, but it was a very different
book from the one that has seen the light of day.
I have worked in various places, including an NHS complaints department, a Christmas
tree farm, and a National Trust house supposedly haunted by Disraeli.
