She writes features and book reviews for The Lady magazine, and reviews fiction for the Daily Mail and the Times Literary Supplement. Her work has also appeared in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Observer, and she was a researcher for Ian Hamilton Collected Poems (ed. Alan Jenkins, Faber, 2009). Educated at the University of Cambridge, she gained a BA in English in 2002 and an M.Phil in English Studies (distinction) in 2005. She has acted as a freelance manuscript consultant to the David Godwin Literary Agency, and in 2006 was recognised by the Arts Council, East “Escalator” talent scheme as one of the ten best emerging prose writers in the Eastern region.