These are my most recent books.  To read more about them, why I wrote them and what they mean to me, click here

 

Peripheral Vision

Listed for the Orange Broadband Prize for Literature 2007.  Visit the Orange Prize pages to read reviews of all the books listed

Click here to see a video clip where I talk about this book and how it came to be written.

Peripheral Vision is a powerful new novel about love and the lack of it; about loss, mothering, sight and insight. 

 

It So Happens

Listed for the Orange Prize for Literature 2005

'Quirky, full of delicious black humour. The writing is consistently lively, fluent and often very touching.'   Margaret Forster

 

 

 

Indefinite Nights

This remarkable collection pulls no punches. Medical horrors, medical miracles, the funny side, the tragedy. Told in clear, straightforward prose, a wicked sense of humour and compassionate perception bring the world of the hospital ward crisply into focus. Almost everyone has been a patient; everyone has a hospital story to tell - but Indefinite Nights contains the best ones you are ever likely to read