'Id always wanted to be a writer, ever since I could read. I loved reading and making up stories and it just felt completely natural to write my own. It was very instinctual, rather ‘ than a conscious decision.
‘I wrote several “novels” as a child, all painstakingly typed up on my electric typewriter (still my most favourite Christmas present ever!). I even sent one of these books off to Penguin when I was about 12. They replied very nicely saying that perhaps I’d like to read some of it out to my class at school (needless to say, I didn’t do this!).
‘I started writing again seriously after I left university. I joined a creative writing forum (this was back in the dark
