Hello
I started working in London restaurants in the 1980s before getting into the music business. Later I studied literature at Oxford and Glasgow universities as and went to become a producer at the BBC. I wrote my first book - a cookery memoir - while owner and chef of a restaurant in London. I embarked on my second book, a novel, which was published in 2020. I am currently working on my next book. I have recently been part of a project working with fellow survivors of child physical, psychological and sexual abuse at school. For some years I have had the privilege of leading weddings and end of life ceremonies as a celebrant for friends and their friends. I spend my time between London and New York where I live with my husband.
Something of my story...
Growing up on an isolated farm in Scotland, connected me deeply to nature. Today I still find peace in the wilderness and head for the forests and mountains whenever I can. This makes me feel part of something greater than myself and though the relationship is unknowable, I find I can draw comfort and meaning from the natural world:
Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear,—both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognise
In nature and the language of the sense
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.
William Wordsworth, 'Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798'