About Me
I grew up thinking that being a writer was the best thing in the world to be. My dad was a writer, and my family traveled around Greece and Turkey until I was seven. Those years were wonderful, full of color and adventure. But because my family moved around a lot, I was never really sure where home was. Ever since then, I’ve been caught between wanting to roam the world and wanting to stay safe. My writing often reflects this.
I spent the rest of my childhood in England. I didn’t like school much but I read a lot. Every year for Christmas, I wrote a story for my dad. They were just short little things, but because I wrote them in an exercise book and numbered the pages, I could pretend they were real novels. Sometimes I had to write using VERY LARGE letters to fill up the space.
Later I worked in a bookshop and then on the features desk of a women’s magazine. In the UK, I’ve published two novels for adults. My books for children include The One Safe Place, The Secret Life of Daisy Fitzjohn, The Time Traveller and the Tiger, and Nowhere Island. I live in Boston, U.S.A with my husband, two dogs and two cats.