My first Hay Festival

31st May 2018

This is going to be my first trip to Hay, and it's particularly exciting because Flora Banks is shortlisted for the YA Book Prize (in immense company), and the prize is awarded at Hay. So I'll be doing a panel with Patrice Lawrence and Holly Bourne.

And I'll be at the book prize itself.

If you're going to be there, please come and say hello!

Latest book

A Girl Can Dream

Hazel is in Venice, on a spontaneous holiday with her stepbrother Enzo and best friend Phoebe. They have just helped Hazel escape her increasingly destructive relationship with her older boyfriend, and have come away to celebrate her being her again. In the dreamy Italian sunshine, Hazel is managing to relax, to stop looking over her shoulder in case Freddie has followed her here. But there’s a girl she keeps seeing in the city. A girl with beautiful eyes. And whenever Hazel sees her and their eyes meet, something strange seems to happen - de ja vu, at first, and then…