A Tale of Forbidden Love at Christmastime

A Tale of Forbidden Love at Christmastime

When Father Matthew and I  woke up again, at some unknown hour later in the evening, the wind had stopped. I turned my head towards the latticed window, buried deep within the thirteenth-century stone wall, and noted with an unbearable sadness that it had stopped snowing. Phantom hills were now visible, rolling and colliding into [...]

When the Horrors of the Past Meet the Hopes of the Future

When the Horrors of the Past Meet the Hopes of the Future

Here's the opening of my novel, Once Upon a Thousand Hills - a bizarre love story about a feisty sex shop worker seeking more meaning in her life, and an aloof director of a London refugee centre hiding from his tortured Rwandan past. Although the backdrop is dark, the punchy romance that unfolds - 20 [...]