Where do you find inspiration for your books? All sorts of places: conversations with friends, newspapers, magazines, overheard exchanges on the bus. With a Friend Like You was born out of a conversation about two close friends who had fallen out.  My latest, House of Dreams, came to me after I’d heard someone on the radio talking about how we only meet our parents a third of the way through […]

Tell me what inspired you to write about your latest book? My most recently published book is Looking at the Stars, and I was inspired to write it over seven years ago when watching the news of the refugees pouring out of Afghanistan and Iraq. I wondered how it would feel to have to leave your home and the place you knew best with pretty much nothing but the clothes […]

Divergent European Film Premiere Odeon, Leicester Square, London Sunday 30th March 2014. It all starts on Wednesday the 26th March, 2014, I was lucky enough to receive an email asking if I would like to take my daughters to this event. Well, what could I say? I knew they had been counting down to see this film since it was announced that a film would be made, but I did […]