Having read Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald at the age of sixteen, I decided I wanted to earn my living by becoming a professional writer. Twenty fours years later I finally achieved that goal, so I'm not what you could call an over-night success.

Escaping teaching after five years, I worked my way up in professional theatre from set-designer to writer and director. While script reading for the BBC I joined the writing team of their new soap opera EASTENDERS and my television career took off from there.