I write novels, articles, and screenplays, and go for very long walks.

My debut novel, The Rest is Silence, is available from Fingerprint Editions. It follows the story of Muriel Mead, an introspective schoolgirl who disappears from a village lane on the eve of World War II.

Was she a victim or simply a young woman determined to live on her own terms?

Told across companion narratives, The Rest is Silence presents the radically different accounts of two women bound to Muriel by memory, longing, and loss. As each narrator searches for answers, their stories reveal not a neat singular truth but a fractured mosaic—coloured by their own convictions about choice, possibility, and the nature of knowing.

The novel was short-listed for the Jenny Brown Associates’ ‘Debut Writers Over 50 Award’ and second read for the Bridport debut novel prize.

Reading The Rest of Silence is like spending time with several of your favourite authors, all within one novel. The mystery element in a wartime Cotswold village is utterly intriguing, the patterns of life and the personalities observed with the eye of an Elizabeth Taylor or a Josephine Tey. The twenty-first century resolution is a convincing and beautifully-weighted exploration of women’s lives and their possibilities. Very highly recommended.’

Shona McLean, author

Apart from The Rest is Silence, I have co-written several comedies (produced in Oxford, Edinburgh and Cape Town) and a screenplay. My first micro story, Spreye, won the Two Lit Chicks’ inaugural flash fiction award. You can also find my articles on Medium.

Over the last three years, I have developed the practice of taking poems for a walk. I walk somewhere that suits a poem, read the poem into nature and record it with voice and image. It’s a service I offer others, so feel free to make a request whether in a moment of joy or gratitude or a time of confusion or despair, or simply because something takes your fancy. You can read about the process in more detail in an article in the journal of the Work that Reconnect. Or follow me on Instagram.

For the last ten years, I have taken an annual pilgrimage and have walked the Caminos Frances, Ingles, Portugues, del Norte and Fisterra to Santiago de Compostela; the Via di Francesco from Florence to Assisi; the Via Francigena across Sicily; The Saints’ Way across Cornwall; and have started the first of many stages on the road from Canterbury to Rome. These pilgrimages are shared with my oldest friend and have become an apprenticeship in noticing, connecting, and sharing, and a masterclass in wonder.

In the course of a long working life, I have variously stuffed envelopes, sold fish, books and coffee, carried out research for the OED and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and edited non-fiction. I also completed a doctorate in Spanish Art History. Currently, I live on a smallholding between the hills and the sea, in West Wales.

I am delighted to be represented by Lisa Highton at Jenny Brown Associates

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