I’m a business owner, wife, mum, writer and podcaster from Buckinghamshire, with an unhealthy obsession with history – particularly anything medieval or Tudor. I unapologetically have a love affair with castles.

I’ve spent most of my adult life building an IT business with my husband, raising two children and generally assuming I had a reasonable idea of where life was going.

Then, in 2016, I got breast cancer. I had no time for it. In fact, my first words after being diagnosed were: “What the f*ck? I haven’t got time for this.”

I blogged my way through treatment – covering the fear, the cake-inhaling steroids, the dark and inappropriate humour, and all the other bits nobody puts on the cancer information leaflets. Nine years later, those words somehow became the beginnings of a book.

When I’m not working on the book, I also write poetry and short pieces about life, people and the slightly ridiculous, often hilarious, business of being human.

I’m also an overexcited hobby chaser, a comfort-zone pusher and a people-loving introvert who is always up for an adventure (followed by a little lie-down). I still identify as a pre-cancer runner. I have all the gear, if not quite the idea or the inclination back, yet.

And I’m still working on my sense of humour … its reliance on inappropriateness and innuendo leaves a lot to be desired.