I studied Art History at Cambridge University and experimented with theatre and TV production before working as a talent agent representing BAFTA and Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning writers and comedians.

After over a decade of deal-making and drinking I left agenting to join The Cystic Fibrosis Trust as a trustee advising on communications. I campaigned for issues close to my heart, speaking at conferences and carol services and writing things: a short film with my husband for The British Comedy Awards based on our experience and hopes for the future of cystic fibrosis, and articles for Mumsnet and the Huffington Post During that time I began writing a novel, which was to become ‘Mother’.

I joined City University’s Novel Studio course to help me develop my novel and won that year’s prize for new writing. Published by HarperCollins in 2018, ‘Mother’ went on to win the Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon Award for new writing and was made Book of the Month on Mumsnet and a pick for Fern Britton’s inaugural Book Club for Tesco. It was described as ‘simply brilliant’ by The Irish Examiner and ‘Human and true,’ by The Financial Times.

‘Mother’ has since been optioned by the BAFTA-winning Clerkenwell Films for adaptation into a television drama for the BBC by Tom Edge (Vigil, Judy, The Crown, Lovesick, Strike)

My second novel, BLURRED LINES, is set in the film industry in London and was published summer 2020. It deals with issues from complicity to imposter syndrome and the cost of speaking out in a pre MeToo era. It was a Clare Macintosh Book Club pick and after being made Book of The Month for Woman and Home, went on to win its annual prize for thriller of the year.

I live in London with my husband, a screenwriter, and our two boys, and I’m at work on two more novels for HarperCollins.