Six things about me that you won't read in the official author bio

  1. My favourite place in England is Northumberland but...
  2. my favourite place in the world is a little ledge in the Grand Canyon where I sat with my daughter last summer and we watched an eagle fly beneath us in the searing heat.  This is probably why...
  3. my favourite film of the moment is INTO THE WILD, directed by Sean Penn, for its magnificent scenery but also for its portrayal of a young man trying to find his place in the world.  When I left uni I didn't try to survive in the wilds of Alaska but I did...
  4. weep during my final exams at Oxford because I would never again write an essay about Don Quijote, then go on to read Social Anthropology at the LSE because I thought it would help me Save the World.  I am also...
  5. 5 foot 1 but for years thought I was tall, and have dark brown hair but used to think I was blonde.  So I was clearly...
  6. always reality challenged, but I am more and more convinced, as writing fiction takes over my life, that a make-believe world is the happiest place to be!