Thank you for visiting my little corner of the internet.

I’ve been in love with stories from the time I first learned language. Older relatives tell me that even as a small child, my nose was always in a book, and as I grew up, the library was my favourite place in the whole world.

But I also had stories inside of me, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been creating characters and plots in my head -- to the disappointment of my teachers, most of whom labelled me a hopeless dreamer. Yes, hopeless was the word: I never had the slightest hope that I could actually give form to stories, actually write books that others might enjoy... until I finally sat down at a typewriter and tried. It took a lot of trial and error, but at last, in 1999, Of Marriageable Age, was published by HarperCollins.

I’ve now sixteen published novels. As you can see if you look around this site, my books span continents, cultures, and eras. From the sugar plantations of colonial British Guiana in South America, to the French battlefields of World War Two, to the present-day brothels of Mumbai and the rice-fields and villages of South India, I’ve ventured far and wide in content, both in time and place.

My books are a reflection of my own life: from growing up free and happy in the garden city of Georgetown, British Guiana; to backpacking through South America and to India; then a more sedate life as a German Hausfrau. My books reflect these changes. I write to explore and understand the human condition, and that’s what these books are inevitably about.

You’ll find darkness in my books, but inevitably, there is light, because I believe that ultimately light is what we long for and light is our ultimate goal; I know it is mine. All my books are a reflection of my own life’s journey, my own struggles and grasping for the light of understanding. I invite you along for the ride. Are you an armchair traveller? Then step on board!