An Author's Notebook

The shocking murder of Sarah Everard has unleashed a torrent of emotion around male harassment of women. Abductions of young women are tra...

Today I'm sitting at my computer in three jumpers, looking through the window at snowflakes swirling around the garden. As ever, I'...

I'm in a retrospective mood. December is a month for sorting through our photos and thinking about the year that has passed. It's n...

My husband and I were playing a fun game the other day. He would point to random objects in the house and I had to say where they came from....

Whenever I succumb to a bit of navel-gazing, the subject is always the same. How to be happy. You'd have thought I'd got it sussed b...

Hermaphrodite Mum Three kids and a single mum "Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!" was King Lear's famed reactio...

Available on Amazon 6/6/16 On Monday the 6 June, my latest novel, The Puppet Master , will be published on Kindle. It tells the story of...

One of my earliest memories is playing happily in a friend's garden before being unceremoniously yanked inside by our panic-stricken mot...

Hermaphrodite Mum Three kids and a single mum The children came back from their dad's place this weekend full of the joys of spring. ...

Christmas time, mistletoe and wine... Late nights, too many presents to buy/wrap and overdoses of vitamin C to keep the winter bugs at bay. ...

Hermaphrodite Mum Three kids and a single mum If I could bestow a single gift upon my children, it would be social confidence. Already I ...

I finally worked out who Bradley Cooper was the other day. Yes, I know - I have been living under a rock. Last Saturday, my husband and I w...

Another new year. Time to ring in the changes. January is a month of resolutions, stodgy thighs and enforced abstinence. We leave the excess...