Left on the Shelf

  The Blurb In this contemporary coming-of-age YA novel, a teenage girl navigates a romance with an older boy when they're cast as the l...

  Dear Diary Am I actually still alive? Would you tell me if I wasn't? I guess I am writing this, so I must be. Sort of. But you wouldn...

  Last night I lay awake again, remembering the day the Hunt ran me down in Hulver Wood when I was just a girl.  It was December, as it is n...

I took the photo above when we had a few days away this month. We stayed in the village of Upper Clatford in Hampshire. The village was gorg...

  I can't do this. I can't do this. But it's happening. I am doing this. I'm following my teammates onto the pitch. I'm ...

  Happy New Year I can hardly believe that another year is behind us. The New Year for me is always a time of reflection on the joys and sor...

Matty would have have stayed snug in her room with her precious belongings around her, but she hates to disappoint Oh My Darling. Whereas so...

 April has definitely begun to feel more like spring. There has been a good mixture of sunshine and rain. It is making everything in the gar...

  I am going back fifty years. Before the lurid headlines, the Hollywood deal, the publishing contract and The New York Times profile of the...

  Autumn is well and truly here in the UK. As I write, the leaves are swirling through the air with the grace of a ballerina. It is pretty t...

  Not all the nuns were cruel. Some of the younger ones would address the girls kindly if Mother Superior were out of earshot. So Matilda co...

  When you find me, you will want to hear my story. Or the part of my story that tells of you. Until then, I turn it around in my mind to pr...

  Here in the UK the clocks go back on Sunday. And as much as I don't want to mention the 'Christmas' word just yet, it's re...

"There are so many ifs, and so many if onlys. If only rugby practice hadn't over-run. If only Evan hadn't gone and lost a ...

"They are waiting for an answer. What do they want me to say? Perhaps they think I am a stalker, targeting the president of an Oxfor...

"A woman has to be tough as steel up here. You can't count on anyone to save you and your children. You have to be willing to sa...

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by ...