I love writing and find time every day to get words down, even though I hold down a day job as a beauty journalist and researcher. The idea for Run Away came after spending many anxious weeks sitting at the computer waiting for emails from my 18-year old son who was on his Gap Year travelling round South East Asia. This was all before the days of Facebook and twitter, but I'm not sure accessing his Facebook page would have been any less alarming! I was more relaxed, but only marginally so, when my second son set off on his Gap Year adventures. Those years certainly provided a fantastic backdrop to my first novel, Run Away, available on amazon. In April 2015, I published my second novel called The Perfume Muse, a sequel to Run Away. Set in Grasse, France, the world capital of perfume. The story is about the difficulties of falling in love: how Julie is torn between two men, both perfumers, who tangle with her affections through the creation of perfume inspired by and exclusively for her. My third novel is on a completely different theme that takes me deep into my mother's past and survival during the Dutch Hunger Winter in World War 2.