Welcome to my world!

Being a childhood bookworm gave me a voracious appetite for writing. I honestly cannot remember a time when I haven't had a book on the go. (Normally several, given that I have the attention span of a gnat when it comes to writing my own books.) For four or five years, that book was The Silent Chapter. Set in the first half of the twentieth century and dedicated to my since-departed grandmother, whose own personal experience of being an evacuee is embedded into Chapter Eight, The Silent Chapter is very close to my heart. It was published, after much excitement, in February 2022. 

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But I'm not only a historical fiction writer! While it was certainly my first love, in my early adult years I branched out into lesbian fiction. Around the time of the first COVID lockdown in Spring 2020, I started writing The Summer We've Had. It's a sunny Sapphic romance set in modern-day Cornwall. And I combined it with one of my other great interests: psychology. Specifically, Dissociative Identity Disorder, a type of complex-PTSD that one of the main characters has. I've never seen fiction containing DID before, so that alone promises that The Summer We've Had is unlike anything you've ever read before. On top of that, it is packed with LGBTQ+ representation, and it is VERY warm and fuzzy!

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After I finished with Cass and Felicia's story, I found I couldn't bear to leave the village of Miltree behind, so I started writing a story for two of its side characters: Petra and Jean Taylor. This story is different because Petra and Jean are already married, but it examines their marriage, what happens when one of them takes on too much and the other begins doubting their gender identity. This eventually became Love You However, my third full-length novel. It can be read as a standalone, but it does check back in with Cass and Felicia of The Summer We've Had, four years on!

 

Love You However focuses mostly on gender dysphoria later in life, but it also processes the impact of unexpected work changes on a relationship. Protagonist Petra is forced into temporary headteachership when her boss, Victoria, gets into a car accident and requires emergency spinal surgery. So after I finished it, I knew I had to write the other side of it: Victoria's side. I finished it so quickly, and was so excited for it, that I couldn't bear to wait until the following year. Hence, A Different Kind Of Pride, which arrived just five months after Love You However! If you want a slow-burn, hurt/comfort, ice-queen toaster-oven romance, check it out!

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After finishing the first draft of The Summer We've Had and starting the editing process back in Summer 2022, I started an entirely new book, set on a hot holiday abroad. It's undergone some huge, drastic changes (not to mention the setting, from Ayia Napa to Lake Garda), but it eventually became The Rainbow Lens, a highly emotional and angsty second-chance romance between two ex-girlfriends who haven't seen each other in thirty years. ​​

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