A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME
Born and raised in the UK, I worked for a time in the HarperCollins fiction department in London, before freelancing as an editor. During my editing career I built up relationships with publishers in the UK and Australia, working with bestselling authors, celebrities and emerging novelists, across a broad range of genres, both fiction and non-fiction.
In 2007, I took time out from editing to finish my first book, Come Back to Me. It was published in Australia in 2010 and made the Sydney Morning Herald top ten Australian bestseller list. In 2011, Beneath the Shadows reached No. 4 on the Australian Sunday Telegraph bestsellers list, and rights were sold in the USA and Germany. Shallow Breath was a ‘Book of the Week’ pick for the Sydney Morning Herald, while All That is Lost Between Us was described by Hannah Richell in the Australian Women’s Weekly as ‘classic suspense, but with a wonderful modern edge’. The Hidden Hours was shortlisted for a Davitt Award in 2018 and has been optioned by TV production company CJZ, while You Don’t Know Me has been adapted into a chart-topping six-part podcast drama series by Listnr in Australia, and was shortlisted for Podcast of the Year in the 2023 Commercial Radio Awards (Australia) and in the Drama Podcast category of the 2024 New York Festivals Radio Awards. The Hidden Hours, You Don’t Know Me and The Hush were all voted into Better Reading’s Top 100 books of the year by Australian readers.
My latest books are published by HarperCollins in Australia and Blackstone in the US. All my novels are available as ebooks and in audiobook format.
I live with my husband Matt, my two daughters and an assortment of animals in Perth, Western Australia. I completed my PhD at Curtin University in 2023, receiving a Chancellor’s Commendation for my research on the representation of mother figures in fiction with young adult heroines. The Hush forms part of my doctoral thesis.
I write two substacks, taking readers behind the scenes at Story Matters, and supporting writers at The Resilient Author, exploring themes around storytelling, publishing, culture and creativity. You can also follow me on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
