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When people ask me what my upcoming novel is about, I usually pause for a second. Heroine is a haunting and traumatic story about a little girl navigating childhood secrets and an uninvited presence in 1990’s Cornwall. Writing a story like this requires diving headfirst into difficult places. Often this means sitting with the silence so that I can feel the quiet fear of a child who is trying to hold her world together with string and toast. My heart needs to beat in time with

Me then. Me now. I asked AI to make this photograph for me. It's a reminder not to write about her as though she were gone. I have spent a long time writing around her. Poems, notes in a phone on the side of the road, sentences on whatever paper was to hand. She didn’t get a book, she got through the day. Heroine is the book she couldn’t write. Not because she wasn’t brave enough, but because she was busy surviving a house that had changed shape, and a new start that did not

For almost ten years, I have carried the idea of writing this book with me. Not just an idea, but a story. A collection of characters and moments that have quietly existed in my mind, waiting for the right time to pour onto a page. The truth is, I wasn’t ready to write it before now. The story was there, but it wasn’t finished inside my own head. I didn’t realise it until now but I needed to understand not only what is happening in the storyline, but why it matters. I am some

It goes without saying that writing what you know is easier than writing what you don’t. The real challenge isn’t the words themselves, it’s the impact they have on your heart. Heart on My Sleeve If you’ve read All The Things I Couldn’t Say Then, you’ll know I write about deep and often uncomfortable subjects. That collection wasn’t originally meant to be published or even shared. It began as a private therapeutic tool, a way to turn feeling into language. When I read those p

I have always loved written word as long as I can remember. Where did this begin, and why now? This blog entry explores my journey and where I am now, right at the beginning of something exciting. Early Life and Influences I was born in London in 1985, relocating to Cornwall when I was six. I often tell people I am Cornish, because I have been deeply in love with it here since I was a little girl. My biggest mountains were climbed here. I wish I could say the beauty of nature