It took a swan dive from a roof to convince Incy (aged 5) she wasn’t an avenging fairy and that no, she most certainly couldn’t fly. Bruised but undefeated she retreated deeper into her make-believe world populated with heroes, heroines and super villains, where good always triumphs over evil—eventually. When her imagination gets too crowded, and the voices in her head too loud, she depopulates by spilling her characters and events onto paper. Born in Zimbabwe but raised in a most peculiar village in Dorset, she hates camping and travelling (unless it’s first class), having spent two years, and every cursed weekend and holiday for ten years thereafter, travelling round Europe in a VW camper van with her parents and two brothers. When not fighting injustice and righting wrongs on ‘Planet Incy’ she works as a Marketing Director, and slaves as a cook, cleaner and homemaker. Unfortunately, her law degree (University College, London) languishes unused, the distinction between good and evil proving too worrisome in real life. Now living in the West Country, her five children are well versed in what scares her (most things) and delight in pushing her neurotic buttons—at their peril.