About me
I have worked in the creative industries all my life and always loved writing. When I took early retirement I decided to dust down two novels that had been written some years earlier.
The first book was The Stand-Up Mam, which came out in 2024. It was inspired by me doing stand-up gigs after a near fatal illness. I was awarded runner-up, in the self-published category of the Comedy Women in Print awards in November 2025.
This July I also self-published my second book, The Allotment Sisterhood about three women who have buried their secrets as deep as their vegetables. It is a story of strong women and how they are tested. I hope it is uplifting and honest, with a good dose of humour.
The photo is me with a spinach cake decorated with tiny vegetables which my daughter made for the launch!
After doing a course at the Edinburgh Fringe to learn the basics, I performed unpaid, five-minute stand-up gigs in the North East for two years and learnt the true meaning of fear! The material and experiences from then have inspired my novel The Stand-Up Mam, which is about a fictional perfect wife and mother who becomes a dark comedy queen at the expense of her family.
It isn’t autobiographical, but my story also explores motherhood and what happens when a woman puts themselves first. Spoiler alert. It’s not plain sailing!
I have also just published my second novel, The Allotment Sisterhood, which follows three women, Rose, Kate and Sophia, as they hide from their past. They are strangers until they all work on a shared allotment. I love the whole gardening world and saw the chance to have an uplifting women’s fiction story based there as a great chance to celebrate all things natural!
