About the Author

I’m a woman of a certain age who decided to turn my embarrassing diaries into an even more embarrassing book—and then got completely carried away.
I write behind a mask. It’s not because I’m shy (well, maybe a little), but because anonymity makes it easier to tell the truth.

My How (Not) To Live Happily Ever After – in Ten Easy Steps! series blends dark humour with honesty to raise awareness about Borderline Personality Disorder—and to prove that even our worst mistakes can make a thumping good story.

I’m a proud mother who loves dogs, writing, reading and painting. Not quite as fond of village life, though… which is partly why I stay masked. If the locals ever connect the dots, they’ll be after me with pitchforks.

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About Book 1

A bored wife and mother in search of her happy-ever-after finds her unravelling mind skittering instead, down a slippery path to destruction .

Looking back on it all now, I guess I should have known. 

I should have known there was something not quite right about my marriage to Victor and my frantic efforts to please him –crash diets and personality transplants included.

Something not quite right about my ditsy but distant teenage daughter.

Certainly something not right about my rampant obsession with the sexy General in the Marines who moved his family to our sleepy English village.

Come to think of it – turns out there was something not quite right about the sleepy village either…

But now I know there was something not quite right about me.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

But then we’re sometimes the last to understand what’s really going on inside our own heads.
Which is why I’ve ended up on trial for murder. 

A darkly comic tale of addiction, sex, lies and denial.
Based (loosely) on a true and transformative story.