What's it all about?

If you've got to the About page, thank you; there are many diary-style posts on here which are perfect for you if you are a middle-aged woman who is astonished to find herself suddenly retired, with grown-up children, two grand-children and a Jack Russell. It's also potentially relevant if you enjoy things that make me laugh (a slightly more niche market, admittedly).

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I originally wrote The Sofa Diaries as a Saturday column for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph - one of those light-hearted family pieces - and have continued it as a blog on and off since then because I enjoy writing it so much. It's served as a personal diary as well, which is useful, hence the older posts which I've kept on here for my own amusement, and which the aforementioned niche market will also find pretty hilarious.

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I have written two novels - Yesterday Upon The Stair, which was long-listed for the Blue Pencil Agency's First Novel Award (I know, right?!). It's about eight-year-old Abigail who arrives uninvited at the home of her aunt who never wanted children. The trouble is, she's dead - she just doesn't know it. And Eleanor has no idea how to tell her ... or why she won't leave. It's darkly humorous and you really should read it if you ever wake up to find a small deceased child picking her nose in your bedroom in the early hours of the morning.

 

My other novel, The Housewife's Guide to Homicide, is a cheerfully wicked story about a downtrodden wife who finally has enough and ... well, I won't spoil it for you but I really enjoyed writing it so you can imagine how it ends. Both are available on Amazon on Kindle or as paperbacks. 

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