So, here’s a little bit about me. My school days were spent at ballet boarding school which is where I get the inspiration for The Graceful Ghost. After I left, I spent a few years dancing around Europe before I opened my own ballet school in Athens, Greece. Now I live in rural England with my husband and our pets.

Apart from writing, animals are my passion! I’m so lucky to live in the countryside, on a smallholding, where we have hens, sheep, occasionally horses or cattle (we had Highland Cattle for a while) dogs, cats and an abundance of wildlife.

Sadly, we lost our precious Digit in April ’24. 

 No one will ever take away the special place Digit has in our hearts! But we created a new place for Jumble .

 Like Mokey, we rescued Jumble from Romania. Never were two dogs more happily matched despite being four years apart in the adoption process!

They are the best of friends and are often to be seen mirroring each other! 

Along with the cat, who thinks he’s a dog 

 they continue to share my office space with me and keep me company with their snores.

I call my office The Burrow, because it’s in a field and is as cosy as a rabbit’s burrow. Then I spell it Burreau, which is a mixture of burrow and the French bureau (office).The cat is called Moji (which frequently gets confused with Mokey!)

My first book, THE GRACEFUL GHOST, is a story that has been with me for a long time and draws on my memories and experiences. Of course, I’ve never met a ghost, but I wouldn’t mind meeting one like Grace. The sequel, BALLET SCHOOL BOYS is full of fun and high jinks because, as the title suggests, boys come to the school. Collectively the books are called The Amberwood Hall Ballet School series. In the third book, BALLET SCHOOL RUMOURS, tensions run high between pupils when someone anonymously starts spreading mean rumours. And in book four,  TRIPLE TROUBLE at AMBERWOOD, the twists, turns and intricacies will surprise you right up to the very end. If you want to know how the ghosts came to be haunting Amberwood Hall, check out the free novella THE GHOSTS OF AMBERWOOD for their story. The other series I have on the go is TALLY AND THE ANGEL. There are currently four books: Book One is set in India, Book Two in the Yukon, Canada, Book Three in Japan and book four in Greece. As you may have guessed, this series takes you around the world with Tally’s adventures and fans are eagerly awaiting the next adventure which will be in Africa. That’s probably enough about me now. Oh, except for the little known fact that….

 I love birthday cake!

If eating was to be banned, and I had to choose my last meal, it would be a huge birthday cake with vanilla sponge, raspberry jam, butter icing and icing.