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Author of psychological thrillers, ‘One Year Later’, 'My Mother's Secret', 'The Stolen Child' & award-winning 'Bone by Bone', pub by @AtlanticBooks.

#ForestSchool! Building a den with my daughter in

#ForestSchool! Building a den with my daughter in our wood. ALMOST as much fun as writing!

I’m loving spending time with my daughter and I’m grateful I’m not on the front line tackling this virus. I do feel slightly frustrated at not having enough time for writing, as I’m also homeschooling as well as all the other chores. I’m not seeing all this extra free time that people keep talking about! But I’m trying to be patient with myself. There are only so many hours in the day. And what could be more important, in the days and the years to come, than to look back at these precious moments and know that I lived them well and cared for the people I love.

I had great fun creating Bethany’s character. Sh

I had great fun creating Bethany’s character. She’s the middle child in the Flowers family in my psychological thriller, ONE YEAR LATER. She’s a TV presenter - which was also my former career (this is a picture of me at the start of my TV career as a wildlife presenter for the BBC). One of the producers I worked with was talking about another presenter and said, ‘He’d stab his grandmother to get ahead.’ I had to put that quote in my novel!

Bethany is feisty, fiery, independent, driven and ambitious. She’s also a victim of TV culture where women have to look young and sexy no matter what show they’re presenting, whereas men are allowed to be on our screens at any age, looking, frankly, a bit dishevelled. Bethany is also a victim of the casual sexual discrimination and abuse against women that still exists in this industry. ‘He said, “Bethany, your problem is you’re smart without being intelligent, good looking without being pretty, and approachable in a girl-next-door-way, but no one in their right fucking mind would want to be your neighbour.”’ Bethany in ONE YEAR LATER recounting what her producer said to her.
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Our daily #homeschool poem chosen by my daughter:

Our daily #homeschool poem chosen by my daughter: Toast by Mike Barfield: ‘Last night, driven mad by hunger
I murdered a slice of bread.
I tore it away from its family -
That poor brown, innocent slice -’ 😂

I'm getting up early to fit in some writing before

I'm getting up early to fit in some writing before #homeschool starts. But first, I do ten minutes of meditation, and think of three things I’m grateful for. Grateful for an uninterrupted hour in my office before everyone else barges in! 😄🙏🏽

We’re starting each morning with a @buddify_app

We’re starting each morning with a @buddify_app meditation, three things we’re grateful for and a poem. I chose Dr Seuss ‘Happy Birthday to You’ because I love the joyful language and word play and because whenever I feel down, I remind myself that ‘Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.’ Or, you know, me-er than me.

#homeschool

Small steps. Seedlings in our greenhouse. We spent

Small steps. Seedlings in our greenhouse. We spent yesterday sewing seeds. #digforsurvival. Meantime we might be eating dandelions and nettles! .
Growing vegetables is a great tip to help keep us mentally healthy from @the_mindflex_dr

Run to the top fuelled by Mother’s Day buckwheat

Run to the top fuelled by Mother’s Day buckwheat and berry pancakes! This is a terrible situation but I hope we can still find moments of joy and the ability to connect to our authentic selves. 🤗

Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you can spend it with

Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you can spend it with the ones you love the most. With love and gratitude to my mother and my daughter. ♥️♥️♥️

Daffodils in our garden. They bring a smile to my

Daffodils in our garden. They bring a smile to my face, even in these dark times. I hope they’ll make you smile too. 💛

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