Writer

I love to think so I love to write. 

I write non-fiction, memoir, short stories, screen-plays and long-form reports.

I am a member of the Society of Authors.

I am an opinion columnist for The Voice. 

I am a regular contributor for Media Diversity Institute and Brightside Publishing’s Broadstairs Beacon. 

Recent articles can be found here.

Non-Fiction

[On Submission] Leave to Remain (part narrative non-fiction / part-memoir). Told in letters, this book is the story of a young woman battling with the UK Border Agency to retain everything familiar to her as a child.  It pierces the veil on the way the immigation system operates, how hostile, unrelenting, and disheartening it is to engage with ever-changing immigration requirements. The book exposes how privilege cannot insulate us from the harsh reality of being othered by a state you want to call home. It is both an illuminating and insightful topic and will be a timely book on publication.

 

[On Submission] Seen, Heard, Spoken: Disagreeing Well in a Divided Society (self-help) is a book designed to help business leaders, professionals, and people from all walks of life master the art of “disagreeing well” – a vital skill when we are living in increasingly divided and uncompromising times.

 

[On Submission] My Nearest Relative is Grief (narrative non-fiction / memoir genre cross). The book is a story of a young girl seeking truth in an unstable, volatile landscape. She grapples with her mother’s borderline personality disorder as she becomes her nearest relative under the UK Mental Health Act. The book poses many questions, the most poignant of which is what does growth and freedom look like when our circumstances do not change?

listen to extracts of My Nearest Relative is Grief
“My Nearest Relative is Grief is absolutely knock out. Well done. I’m so sorry that you had such a traumatic time growing up. Life can be so unfair. I’m in awe.”
Editor, MagazineMemoir Testimonials
“I believe this to be an incredibly important story from a voice not often heard in our contemporary non-fiction. The book isn’t just fascinating, it’s necessary.”
Editor, PublisherMemoir Testimonials
“The emotional impact for me was in the pervasively (generationally) broken situation. And the subsequent lost-ness of Mother and Leah, stranded in a landscape of broken pieces, trying to make sense of it all and to find a way through the scattered shards, and the enormity of that task.”
Beta ReaderMemoir Testimonials
“The story is just deeply affecting.”
Beta ReaderMemoir Testimonials

Playwriting

Watch this space! Coming soon!

Novel

I am writing a debut women’s fiction novel entitled One Turn Around the Sun.

This love story follows a Black Dutch girl through her 30th year amongst members of the British upper class, navigating prejudice and microaggressions from friends who profess to love her the most, friends who may eventually become family.

The novel explores the intersectionality of race, class, privilege, prejudice and romance.