About Me

Author of 13 novels. Founder of the Hertford Children’s Book Festival. Ambassador for Beating Bowel Cancer. Countryside dweller. And mum.
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    The Turning Point

    The Turning Point

    Over one short weekend, when Canadian musician Scott Emerson and British author Frankie Shaw meet by chance, a profound connection is made. Their homes are thousands of miles apart: Frankie and her children live by the coast...

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    The Way Back Home

    The Way Back Home

    Born and brought up at Windward, an artists’ commune in Derbyshire, Oriana Taylor had freedom at her fingertips in a home full of extraordinary people. The Bedwell brothers, Malachy and Jed, shared their childhood and adolescence with...

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Turning point…

After a long, steep hike which has been rocky in parts and downright slippery too, I’ve reached that strange and magical turning point in my new novel when the story is truly telling itself.  I thought you might like to ‘see’ how this novel is being written. At the moment, despite having a lovely office...

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