About Me
I'm a British writer, with Cornish roots and currently living in Yorkshire. My work is inspired by childhood summers spent with my grandparents in Cornwall, and by Grimms' Fairy Tales - the world's most terrifying literary treasure-chest.
Books I've Written
The Beach Hut - the story of a grown-up brother and sister who build an illegal beach hut on a Cornish beach in the autumn, the local man who is determined to drive them away, a young girl wrestling with demons of her own, and the secrets of their past.
The Summer We All Ran Away - a group of five runaways, all strangers to each other, find themselves drawn to a beautiful half-derelict mansion in the West Country, and uncover the story of the man who last lived there thirty years ago.
New World Fairy Tales - a collection of modern re-interpretations of six of the Grimm brothers' most iconic fairy tales.
Favorite Authors
This is such a hard question! Okay, here are the ten writers whose work has influenced me the most:
The Brothers Grimm
Lewis Carroll
Angela Carter
Daphne du Maurier
Kazuo Ishiguro
Ira Levin
Ursula le Guin
Jane Austen
Jean Rhys
