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I, like many others, have experienced the feeling of being trapped by circumstances, by the constant need to put others first, the difficulty of finding a means of escape, the impossibility of being able to live fully as yourself.

Writing has always been a form of release, a way of processing my feelings. I have kept all my travel journals but the words written to help me make sense of life, during my years as a full time general practitioner, have not survived. With the added challenge of caring for elderly parents, characters developed in my mind who allowed me to fictionalise my feelings, first in short stories and then novels. I had found my escape.

My books are ordinary stories about ordinary people. How we deal with the chaos left by everyday events in our own lives, relying on the kindness of others and our own resilience until order is restored; and how in that process we change and grow.

In the books, Hilary and her friends mirror facets of my own life experiences. Hilary’s story is unique, as is my own. Readers may not have lived the same lives as Hilary, her friends or even myself but the feelings are universal.

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