About

I’m an author and journalist living in the English Lake District. My debut novel, Life’s a Catastrophe was followed up by The Happiness Project. Both are romantic comedies, set in London. Both have very modern heroines who embark on unwise journeys down social media rabbit holes, eventually realising love is more nourishing than likes.

Read more about Life’s a Catastrophe here.

Read more about The Happiness Project here.

I like to think I live a more balanced life than my technology-addicted protagonists. For the last twenty years I’ve lived with my husband and three children in a quiet village in the north of England where we regularly explore the Lakeland countryside. We also travelled a lot while the kids were growing up and our award winning, website The Family Adventure Project documents twenty years of our family adventures. A compulsive reader, I spend many hours in the coffee shops of Cumbria with a book or my laptop, and I am learning to play the guitar.

A journalist by training, I have an enduring love for words. My poetry took me on a tour of the Lake District as the GoLakes travel poet and I was poet in residence for Lonely Planet Kids. For several years I was a columnist for Cumbria Life magazine. You can find many of my freelance articles online.