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At the heart of all my work, whatever the genre, I am interested in the same thing: ordinary people pushed into extraordinary situations. What they reveal. What they hide. What they survive. That part never changes. Only the world around them does.

People often ask where the idea for a book comes from, and the honest answer is that it’s rarely one thing. With Low Reach, it began with a feeling. Not a plot. Not even a character. Just a feeling. I had this image in my mind of three sisters returning to the family holiday cottage on the Devon coast after the death of their father. A place tied up in childhood memories, old routines, and all the things families leave unsaid. I knew straight away that I didn’t want it to be

For a long time, my writing life happened in the margins. Like many writers, I carried ideas around for years... fragments of stories, half-drafted novels, characters who wouldn’t quite let go. Some of those stories lived in notebooks, some in files marked Draft v7 , others only in my head. They were waiting, quietly, for time. In May 2025, I retired. And suddenly, time arrived. Retirement didn’t give me inspiration... I already had that. What it gave me was focus. The space