I’ve always written … letters from boarding school, short stories and playlets to entertain my sisters when we were young. I started writing Kilingiri, by hand, in 1992! Then, in 1996, when my husband gave me a lap top the size of a brief case and the weight of several bricks I transcribed hundreds and hundreds of pages of scrawl. Over the years, between marking Maths and English assignments, I wrote for newspapers and magazines and continued to visit the manuscript for an hour here and there until around 2011 when the serious search for an agent started.

I am a qualified elementary school teacher with 33 years experience teaching in schools in the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Dubai. I hold certificates in teaching ESL and Counselling.