The Creative Writing Blog

 

I was born in Broken Hill - a mining town in outback New South Wales now most famous for being where Guy Pearce gets beaten up in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. I went to primary school in Canberra and Perth before my family settled in Adelaide when I was 10. I got a typewriter for my 10th birthday because I wanted to be a writer, and I have been trying to write ever since. 

 

I studied Law and English Literature at Adelaide University. On graduating I was a Tutor in Constitutional Law for 2 years then practised as a Commercial Litigation lawyer. I met my husband at Uni and his law career took us to Sydney, where I lectured at UTS Law School and our daughter was born. Then we moved to Hong Kong where I taught Plain English to Chinese executives and our son was born. After five years in HK, we moved to London where we still live. By now completely sick of reinventing myself I abandoned my...