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In my formative years I spent several years living on a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee. That’s where I really started writing - though I thought of it as a quirk. When I moved to Jerusalem, I studied Psychology, and worked in a Language School - in what was then a very mixed city I met a huge crowd of different characters. Writing then was a sort of record keeping activity.

Returning to England I got married and had kids. Writing grew into story-telling. I trained as a clinical psychologist, and writing was an avoidance activity. In Brighton, working with people with Learning Disabilities, writing was a way of expressing my anger.

When I researched my D.Phil thesis on Logic Programming, writing was a displacement activity. Dragged back into Clinical Psychology, in an increasingly chaotic and shrinking NHS, I began to realise that I was actually a writer. So recognising that fact, I enrolled on the National Academy of Writing Diploma course.

Since then I have edited an anthology, completed a volume of short stories, written a book about family history and completed a novel. Thus my mind is wondering and wandering - and new ideas cohere. I am working on my next novel, and editing the next selection of my short stories.