So, the toe in the water of getting an agent ( the wonderful Kate Barker) very quickly led on the exciting but terrifying offer of a two-book deal from Bonnier Zaffre publishers. The first one, 'Lily's War' will be published in January 2020 and the second one, "Bobby's War' will follow a year later. This... Continue Reading →

So, I'm feeling a little dizzy. I have had some lovely feedback and advice from a publisher and I now have an agent. I can't tell you how exciting this is. It is as if I've been given validation as a writer. When I made that leap from factual, journalistic writing into fiction with a ... Continue Reading →

So, I confess, I'm an author. Well, a sort of unpublished author but I'm determinedly optimistic. I've spent four years writing a novel very loosely based on my parents' war careers. A parallel story of a WAAF and a Desert Rat, to say I created problems for myself, would be an understatement- it took two... Continue Reading →