About
I grew up in a large and raucous family that seemed to attract an endless stream of visitors from all over the world (including, once, the Pakistani cricket team). As a youngster, I quickly learned that considered argument and a clever turn of phrase were the only ways to get attention around the dinner table. Hoping these childhood skills might lead to a career, I went on to study psychology and law. After a brief and not especially brilliant career as a litigation lawyer, I shifted gears and pursued further work and study in the philanthropic and social enterprise sector. Working in and around the law, it became obvious the world could be a dark and difficult place, but beneath it all there were often themes of redemption and hope. What always interested me was the story behind the story.
In my forties, I became a keen consumer of writing courses and started working as a freelance writer. Realising that my chance for a mid-life crisis with appropriate lunacy levels was slipping away, I finally wrote a novel. My books combine elements of humour, domestic drama and suspense and in 2018, I was thrilled to be named as national recipient of the Dymocks/Fiona McIntosh Commercial Fiction Scholarship.
I live with my family on Gundungurra and Tharawal land, in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales. The region is famous for the International Cricket Hall of Fame, being Australia’s first Booktown, and having a Wine Trail. Two of those three make me very happy.