After trying many different forms of writing, in 2005 I decided that I wanted to focus on the novel and took a leave of absence from my work as an educational psychologist to complete an M.A at Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing. I have over thirty years' experience of the impact of early childhood experience upon adult relationships and use this knowledge to develop my characters' personalities, even in historical fiction. Once I know the child, I have the adult!

'The Jacobite’s Wife' is the first book in the Jacobite Saga and is a fictionalised account of the life of Winifred Herbert, later Countess of Nithsdale. As a Scottish child, I learned about her role in her husband's dramatic escape from the Tower of London but in researching Winifred's life, I found that it was her story I wanted to tell. 'The Jacobites' Plight' is the second book in the series and takes the reader to the end of Winifred's life as well as following her brother William's story, and her fascinating niece Mary Herbert, gambler and entrepreneur. The Herbert family continued to intrigue me and for my third book in the Jacobite Saga, The Jacobite's Heir, I found two more fascinating women who marry into the Herbert family, Henrietta Waldegrave (later Beard) and her daughter Barbara Herbert, Mary Herbert's niece. All three novels are published by Bloodhound Books.

'Broken' was my first domestic-suspense drama and is self-published. It follows the story of Ros, who grew up in the youth justice system and has a baby at eighteen. On the maternity ward, she meets Anna, having her fourth child. Anna projects an image of a perfect life but her husband Nick resents the constraints of family life and is deceiving her. As their lives become entangled, all three struggle with secrets and lies. When Ros's past encroaches, their lives are blown apart. My second domestic-suspense drama, Crash, was published by Bloodhound Books in May 2024, under the pen name Isobel Ross.
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