I’ve always thought of books as an incredible escape – a chance to walk in another’s shoes, to open doors, to travel to unexplored worlds, to embrace the full experience of being human. I love nothing more than opening the cover of a book and breathing in the promise of what lies ahead.
I inherited my love for the written word from my parents, who read to me and my siblings as young children and took us on frequent trips to our local library and bookshop.
Since university, my career has been grounded in storytelling, first in book publishing in London & Sydney, then later, transitioning from written tales to visual stories, when I worked for a film distributor in Australia.
I wrote my debut novel, Secrets of the Tides, around the time my first child was born. Since then, I’ve written six novels with my latest, One Dark Night, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2025. My work is available in twenty-four territories and has been translated into nineteen languages. My books have been selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club, the Waterstones Book Club, WHSmith Book of the Week, shortlisted for two ABIAs, an Indie Book Award, Best International Crime Novel at the Ned Kelly Awards in Australia, as well as shortlisted for the Bonniers Bokklubb Book of the Year Award in Sweden.
While each of my novels is a stand-alone story, what connects them is my fascination with families and secrets, my desire to dive below the surface and explore the darker recesses of the human experience, the weight of grief and the echoes of loss, the light and resilience that can be found in unexpected places, combined with my ambition to tell you a story that will keep you turning the pages late into the night.
I have written fiction and non-fiction pieces for various media outlets in both the UK and Australia and am a co-founder and judge on the annual Richell Prize, established in 2014 by Hachette and the Emerging Writers’ Festival in memory of my late husband, Matt Richell. It’s an incredible privilege to be invited to read a writer’s first pages and to support new authors as they take the next steps in their career.
I am a dual citizen of the UK and Australia and currently live just outside Bath in England with my two children, my partner, three step-children, a fluffy cat and a crazy Cocker Spaniel.
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