I have always loved reading and getting completely absorbed and lost in a book.  Life always seemed interesting and exciting in the story, and I felt part of the story as if I was living it, every time I read a book.  I guess reading was a way to escape my life.  At school, I was always good at writing essays, but never believed in myself.  For years I wanted to write, but always doubted if I was good enough.  Then I got breast cancer and re-thought my life.  After a nightmarish encounter with a con-artist in New Zealand, I decided to turn my life around and break the pattern of bad relationships.  It was this time that I wrote Fear, Phobias and Frozen Feet - a self-help book for people caught up in the relationship triangle, with handy tips on how to start on a new life. I have never set out to have an interesting and slightly out of the ordinary life.  But, somehow that's been my lot in life.  To have adventures.  So I guess it was easy to find material to get the old imagination kick-started.   I guess many authors and books have influenced me over the years as I am quite a prolific reader.  Kathy Reichs, Jonathan Kellerman, Jo nesbo, Jodi Picoult and  Tom Sharpe with his Riotous Assembly and Wilt books, have really inspired me.  I just love his sense of humour.  I also like crime novels, a good thriller and reality fiction.

Survived motherhood and a ten year marriage.