Historical and literary fiction rooted in France — from wartime châteaux and Parisian lives to the perfume fields of Grasse.
France has always been more than a setting. It is a source of atmosphere, history and human stories — the thread running through my fiction.
In 1947, Rosa di Angelo returns to Grasse with her two young sons and discovers that the world she knew has been destroyed by war. From the ruins, a perfume dynasty begins to rise.
Spanning generations, Angelus is a story of ambition, family loyalty and the intoxicating power of scent — set among the jasmine fields, perfume houses and old rivalries of southern France.
Against the backdrop of the Château of Lusone, two families become entwined across half a century of love, war, revenge and secrets.
Eleven stories spanning the bohemian 1920s to the present day. Romantics, artists, adventurers and lost souls answer the siren call of Paris.
A childhood spent moving between countries left me with a fascination for place — and for the way people belong, leave, return and remember.
“Perhaps it isn’t surprising that travel became the starting point for so much of my writing.”
I grew up in India, Pakistan, Iran, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Italy and England. Later, I had the opportunity to live in France and to write about its culture, history and destinations.
I first travelled through France at seventeen, hitchhiking down the west coast and across the Pyrénées. I returned the following year with three school friends and drove 3,000 kilometres of French country roads.
Today my fiction returns repeatedly to France: to its histories, its landscapes and the private lives lived behind familiar façades.
Alongside fiction, I have spent many years writing and publishing journalism about France — its culture, history, food, places and people.