About

I was born in Kenya, but only lived there for a year before moving back to the UK.  I lived in Norwich and Wales, before finally ending up on the Isle of Wight when I was 8.  I still live there now, although I did briefly escape for a few years.  I even lived in London for a while.

I work as a Reception class teacher at a small Primary school, but my passion has always been writing stories.  For several years now, I have been seriously trying to get published, although a heavy workload and young family mean that I only have an hour or so, in between planning for school and collapsing into bed, to do it.  A few years ago I started writing a story about a group of Victorian sideshow freaks and, after several rejections and lots of rewrites, I entered it into the Times/Chicken House competition in October 2010.  Somehow it won.

The book is due out in April 2012.  For updates on its progress, please check out the Book and Blog pages.  Thanks for stopping by.