Fiction:
From flash fiction to short stories, I’m also developing a series of crime novels set in various locations around Europe. I’m writing under a pseudonym for now, to give me the greatest writing freedom.
My non-fiction work is now focussed firmly on travel, and I’m researching several books about the Grand European hotels and coffee houses from the mid 19th to mid 20th Centuries, and continuing to work on private commissions for hotels and restaurants.
Translation: by commission, mostly from German, Italian and French.
I’ve been writing magazine and newspaper features for over 25 years, mostly about family life, motherhood and travel, but also fitness and mental health.
I now write mostly about independent travel for women, and the history of grand hotels and cafes of Europe
I LOVE being an independent woman in my early 50s, autonomous and free, who has rediscovered her SELF and her lust for life. Having recovered from huge trauma and damage following domestic abuse and violence, raised three children to adulthood and learned to live with PTSD, I have rebuilt my life on my own terms, and am now here to celebrate all we CAN do as women in this fantastic stage of life, and encourage others to believe in themselves and live their lives to the max.
I love how my words help and inspire others to make positive changes to their lives, and get their self confidence and joy back.
I’ve been a columnist for national newspapers and magazines, over two decades.
The Telegraph’s Three Teens and a Baby column, 2017/18
The Venice Diaries, 2018; account of my adventures - or rather misadventures - of moving from the UK to Venice with a 10-month-old baby.
Essentials Magazine - No, It’s Not Just You: back-page monthly column about Those Things We All Do But Nobody Really Talks About…so I do. Care.com - UK parenting spokesperson and columnist.
Cambridge News - Dear Parenting Guru: spoof parenting agony aunt column. Funny. All totally untrue.
And more.
I’ve written five books, all memoir or narrative non-fiction about my life experiences, including a Sunday Times bestseller and an Amazon No 1 best-seller.
All of them are very honest, mostly funny and sometimes sad - much like life, in fact.
My latest best-seller, ‘Coming Clean’, is a memoir about my experiences of living with an alcoholic. It’s also very honest, but a little less funny.
‘The Middle Years - When the Kids Grow up and Everything Goes Tits Down’
is a very funny, sad and possibly sanity-saving account of that time in our lives when our children grow up just enough not to want us any more, but not enough to sod off and give us our lives back. It’s about love and loss, and some chin hair, and it’s available HERE:
