I always wanted to be a psychologist and novelist. To begin my quest I studied psychology at the universities of Wales, Surrey, the London School of Economics and later at the Tavistock Clinic in Hampstead, London, where I trained as an organisational consultant and learned much more about psychoanalysis and the unconscious mind.  

After 40 years as an academic psychologist teaching, researching and writing about mental health, family violence, gender and power in organisations and organisational dynamics I began to write novels gaining inspiration from my life as an academic, and awareness of other peoples lives in parallel dimensions.

I am now Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. In the early days I worked at the previously named North East London Polytechnic (University of East London) teaching social workers and psychologists after which I taught medical students at the University of Sheffield before taking up my last post as head of the department of Health and Social Care at Royal Holloway.  

Even though technically retired I now consult to social services and universities while continuing to write academic articles and books - the most recent focusing on psychology and genealogy. These are all visible on this website. 

I am currently completing Enemies at Work for Taylor and Francis that will be published in the spring of 2027. This book includes stories from encounters with my own enemies as well as those experienced by my research and consultancy participants.

I have now written five novels. In Containment featuring Dr. Wilson Coffey, psychiatrist and reluctant spy, Wilson becomes unwittingly, and at first unwillingly, part of a team uncovering members of Werwolf - a neo-Nazi spy ring in West Germany. 

This reluctant spy re-appears in The Broken Couch as he uncovers the truth about the murder of a British agent before the Nuremberg trial begins. Fascinated by deception, envy and evil along with their psychological consequences, The Broken Couch also features psychoanalyst Erika, a former pupil of Sigmund Freud's, who develops her practice at the newly founded Tavistock Clinic in London. After World War 2 she assists in the investigation of senior war criminals at the first Nuremberg trial. But Erika's motivation is not all it seems. She shares a secret with one of the main protagonists which she needs to unravel before his death sentence is carried out. 

Believe Me and Bystander the first two in a campus noir crime series, feature Dr. Nancy Strong a psychological profiler. The dark sides of university life are revealed -initially through the everyday competitive relationships among academics and then by more sinister crimes. 

The Man in the Tunnel,  my fifth novel tells the story of two retired psychologists who go on a holiday cruise only to find themselves investigating a brutal murder where they discover almost no-one is who they claim to be.

Other pleasures in my life include my husband, daughter, grandsons, some of their companions and our friends.