About me

I am a London-based freelance writer and editor. After many years working primarily as a journalist, I have now returned to my first love: fiction writing.

DNA Never Lies, the first in a series of mystery novels featuring genealogist Karen Copperfield, was published in summer 2022. Karen helps people make sense of family secrets revealed by DNA tests such those sold by Ancestry and 23and me. The next in the series, Lie by Lie, came out in 2025.

Aside from paid work and fiction writing, my main area of research and interest is bisexuality. I wrote Women and Bisexuality in the 1990s – the first serious non-fiction book on the subject to be published in the UK. I wrote a blog on bisexuality between 2006 and 2015 and more recently looked at the issues about bisexuality and ageing.

I also have a masters’ degree in Life History Research, looking at the lives of two now-forgotten women writers (Ethel Mannin and Nerina Shute). One of my main recreational interests is 1920s-30s bohemian London. This will form part of the backdrop to my next novel, A Liar’s Guide to DNA, to be published in early 2027.