Welcome to my website! Thank you for visiting. I am a writer, mentor, editor, and occasional musician. Author of Cloistered: my Years as a Nun, my work has been published in the UK (Chatto & Windus, 2024,), the US (St Martin's Press, 2024), and the Czech Republic (Práh, 2024), adapted for radio (as Radio 4's Book of the Week, April 2024) and serialised in the Observer and the Saturday Telegraph.
I have appeared as a guest on Radio 4's Saturday Live, Radio 3's The Verb, and been interviewed on channels including BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, Katherine May's Book Club, and by the legend that is Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air podcast in the States. I am grateful to say that Cloistered was mostly favourably reviewed in the Financial Times, Guardian, TLS, Telegraph, Times, Tablet, Spectator, New Statesman, Catholic Herald, Church Times, Mail on Sunday, and other outlets in the UK, and has been covered by the New York Review of Books, Publishers' Weekly, and Epoch Times, in the US, and in Aktuálně.cz in the Czech Republic.
Shortlisted for the 2025 Hatchard's and Biographers' Club First Biography Prize, and chosen as one of Prospect Magazine's books of the year, 2024, Cloistered is the product of a long, slow process of mulling, soul-searching, and attention to the craft of writing. With a London University PhD in Creative Writing (Goldsmiths) and degrees from the Universities of Oxford and UEA, I am now married to Neil, play the viola and piano whenever I get the chance, enjoy choral singing, and divide my time between Oxford and the Malvern Hills.
I have appeared as a guest on Radio 4's Saturday Live, Radio 3's The Verb, and been interviewed on channels including BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, Katherine May's Book Club, and by the legend that is Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air podcast in the States. I am grateful to say that Cloistered was mostly favourably reviewed in the Financial Times, Guardian, TLS, Telegraph, Times, Tablet, Spectator, New Statesman, Catholic Herald, Church Times, Mail on Sunday, and other outlets in the UK, and has been covered by the New York Review of Books, Publishers' Weekly, and Epoch Times, in the US, and in Aktuálně.cz in the Czech Republic.
Shortlisted for the 2025 Hatchard's and Biographers' Club First Biography Prize, and chosen as one of Prospect Magazine's books of the year, 2024, Cloistered is the product of a long, slow process of mulling, soul-searching, and attention to the craft of writing. With a London University PhD in Creative Writing (Goldsmiths) and degrees from the Universities of Oxford and UEA, I am now married to Neil, play the viola and piano whenever I get the chance, enjoy choral singing, and divide my time between Oxford and the Malvern Hills.
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