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I don’t start my books with an idea; I start them with a feeling, knowing that there’s something I’d like to evoke – all the ideas and the questions that follow develop from that.

Little Miracles starts with a huge sense of anticipation – which dissolves into disbelief, horror and despair as Julia Fearon’s dreams are shattered about her. Her son goes missing in a freak storm at the beach – the catalyst for the surfacing of a lot of unspoken truths within the family. Julia is tortured by her conflicting needs; to accept the loss and get on with her life as the family urge, or to get to the bottom of what happened, risking all.  In the face of increasing isolation, and family opposition, hope fades.
But Julia experiences a growing faith that all is not yet lost...

In the case of Pandora’s Box the feeling was one of incredible sadness and also stuckness – both the mother and her daughter are aware that the girl hasn’t long to live – and the question was, where to find the hope in that?
The answer – as my two heroines (like Pandora) discover is that hope never escapes from the box. It’s still inside. And that is where they must find it.
Ultimately, all the characters in this book have got to find their answers inside themselves. I use my knowledge of astrology to help create characters that feel real. ‘A Writer’s Guide to the Zodiac’ - a non-fiction title which I brought out in 2005 – explains how.