After devoting several years to my daughter, I found that I lacked the inspiration to write more novels, so I set up as a ghost writer. Since that time I have "ghosted" books as varied as an academic work for Indiana University Press on Vivaldi's harmonic structure by a Hebrew-speaking scholar, a memoir by a survivor of Saddam’s Iraq, a memoir from the army chaplain first to arrive in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, the autobiography of a WWII pilot brought up in a polygamous Morman family, a book on godparenting, the story of a young girl brought up within an Islamic cult, and a book on the psychology of martial art.

While freelancing in top London orchestras all over the world (I trained as an orchestral cellist) I began to write on the side. Orion published my first two novels in hardback and paperback, to critical acclaim. (While the Music Lasts and Ghost Music--contemporary, literary novels). I was also lucky enough to have my first play, Beating Time, published by New Theatre Productions and put on at the Lewisham Theatre, London. Then I had my only child, a daughter.