Today marks the start of the online 'Work in Progress' course with Faber Academy.

I am embarking on twelve months of study and work during which time I hope to complete the first draft of my novel, "Hellingly". Inspired by a real life story it is set in Hellingly Mental Hospital in East Sussex and tells the story of a mother, haunted by poisonous secrets, who, having succumbed to the sanctuary of madness, must now find her way back to sanity and reclaim her family.