About me
I was born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa.
I studied drama at the University of the Witwatersrand and I've worked as a writer for theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market. I have lived in London since 2000. I live with one husband, two sons and a cat.
I've published several novels to critical acclaim: This Year's Black (Struik 2004), Lame Angel (Struik 2006), Babies in Waiting (Quercus 2012) and Wonder Women (Quercus 2013). After Isabella was published by Allen & Unwin in 2016, and What She Left in 2017.
I also write under the pseudonym Cass Hunter, and my first novel as Cass, The After Wife, was published by Trapeze in March 2018. It was translated into nine languages and optioned as a film in China.
More recently, I have published The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra and The Last Searcher of St. Faith's.
My television credits include Sesame Street, and my corporate clients have included Getty Images, the BBC, the Maybourne Hotel Group, Lever Faberge, Starbucks, Toyota and many more.
My play, Through a Glass Darkly, was performed at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in 2016, and my stage adaptation of Dracula was performed at the Bridewell Theatre in 2019. I am Chair of community theatre organisation Theatre in the Square and have led on the devising of a number of plays,
I am a tutor on the Jericho Writers' Ultimate Novel Writing Programme, and the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at London South Bank University.
Current projects
PhD by Public Works
I am currently engaged in my PhD by Public Works at Middlesex University. I will be examining six works: The After Wife, Dracula, The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra, Francis Bacon and the Ghost Chicken of Highgate, The Lost Girls of Highgate Cemetery and The Last Searcher of St Faith's.
