• Hardcover 192 pages (April 2006)  
   Publisher: Severn House Publishers
•  ISBN: 0727891510

The Next Room

As a reader I adore having my spine chilled, and I’ve long wanted to write a ghost story of my own. The story here concerns a single mother, Fee, and her young daughter Hannah, who move into a rented flat in north London to begin what they hope will be a new chapter in their lives. Fee is haunted by her own troubled childhood and the destructive relationship of her parents, and she’s soon plagued by disturbing and terrifying events.

I certainly hope they’re terrifying – there were occasions when I found myself glancing over my shoulder as I wrote in the evening – but to convince, a ghost story must have its own powerful internal logic, and here it’s only when Fee confronts the ghosts of her past that she can confront and exorcise the ghost that haunts her now, and begin to go forward.