My latest novel The Babysitter is a different take on your regular child abduction story. It was an idea that came to me whilst watching a show about people being reported missing and I wanted to explore all motives behind the taking of a child from their parent or...

Twenty-two years ago when we arrived in France with two bikes, a dog and very little else, we had no idea it was the life changing event that it turned out to be. For us moving to France, was more a case of falling Into a French dream rather than, Falling for a French...

In ‘A Christmas Wedding in the Cotswolds’ Immi Tolliman has six months to plan her wedding. But she also has six months to organise a fund raiser to build a children’s playground in Aysbury, a small village close to the lock and adjoining marina. This Christmas they...

The setting for my latest novel Lil’s Bus Trip is a special one for me. Lil, the main protagonist, takes the ferry from Southampton and, with her daughter Cassie, her friend Maggie and a minibus load of other people from the local pub, she travels through Normandy, to...

Writing We Belong Together in the pandemic might explain the main character Eleanor’s desire to create a retreat for people to escape the stress and strain of day to day life. I absolutely loved writing about the Damson Farm retreat because creating opportunities for...