As the child of British parents, I grew up in Australia with a strong sense of history. We were a nomadic family – my parents had emigrated to Canada from England in the mid 1960’s, where I was born, returned to England and then emigrated to Australia in the early 1970’s (where my sister was born). My mother, a history teacher, and father, an economics professor, instilled in me a love of art, history, and literature.
A former lawyer and health economist, I moved to the United States in 1995 and was fortunate to be able to live and work in Arizona, New York, Northern California and Colorado before settling in Naples, Florida. Since 2004, I’ve been lucky enough to pursue my lifelong dream of being a published fiction writer and I now split my time between Naples and Breckenridge with my husband, Tim, and collie, Rafferty. My twin boys, Sam and Jasper, are off at college starting their own careers.
My first novel, Consequences of Sin, featuring the Oxford graduate, heiress, and militant suffragette, Ursula Marlow. Consequences of Sin was originally published by Viking/Penguin in 2007. It was a San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area bestseller and a Macavity Award nominee for best historical mystery. The second book in the series, The Serpent and the Scorpion, was published by Penguin 2008, and the third book, Unlikely Traitors, was released by Open Road Media in 2014. I am thrilled that Open Road Media is now re-releasing all three Ursula Marlow novels complete with new, beautiful cover art.
During the pandemic, I also discovered a renewed passion for painting and since that time my artistic expression has broadened to incorporate a career as both a writer and a visual artist. Painting helps me appreciate the natural world in a different way, helping me connect with my own childhood love of painting and of the interconnections between the many places I have lived. Both writing and painting are now critical elements of my artistic life that I look forward to sharing with others.