Thanks so much, Sarah, for inviting me onto your blog to talk about my new book, Release, which is out today, August 31, 2021.

It seems incredible that I now have two books published from what started out as no more than a hobby. Well, that’s not strictly true.

I started writing when I was young, thanks to a vivid imagination fuelled by my father’s tales of his travels in the Merchant Navy and by all the adventure stories I read. Make-believe always seemed so much more magical than reality. Y...