LIVING FOREVER
CAN BE LETHAL…
What if ageing could be cured?
How much would you risk to stay young?
Out April 10th
Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets.
Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life.
But Ruth’s cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, who hungers for immortality, and the SuperJuve – a premium upgrade – was created, driving human lifespan to a new high.
The wealthy elite who take it are dubbed Supers, and the population begins to skyrocket.
Then, a perilous side-effect of the SuperJuve emerges, with catastrophic consequences, and as the planet is threatened, the population rebels, and laws are passed to restore order: life ends at 120. Supers are tracked down by Omnicide investigators like Mara … and executed…
Mara has her own reasons for hunting Supers, and she forms an unlikely alliance with Ruth to find Grundleger.
But Grundleger has been working on something even more radical and is one step ahead, with a deadly surprise in store for them both…
Welcome to my site. I write speculative thrillers, mainly about the things that scare me. In this world of questionable facts and news, I believe storytelling is more important than ever to engage people in real life issues.
Longlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and described by British bookshop chain Waterstones as: "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", my debut novel, The Waiting Rooms, set during an antibiotic crisis, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award and selected as a Guardian Book of the Month.
My second thriller, Off Target, imagines a world where genetic engineering of children has become the norm. It was a Times Book of the Month who described it as "an astute, well-researched and convincing novel of ideas".
My third thriller, One, is set in a one-child policy Britain that has been ravaged by the climate crisis. Longlisted for Best Novel in the British Science Fiction Association Awards, it was described as "pleasingly terrifying" by New Scientist.
My latest novel, The Cure, explores the catastrophic consequences of a cure for ageing which is hijacked by immortalist obsessives.
My previous job working for an environmental charity took me to research projects across Asia, Africa and the Americas, and I have an ongoing passion for wild creatures, wild science and far-flung places.
When I’m not writing, I’m chasing across fields after my dog, attempting to organise myself and my family or off exploring somewhere new.
Photo Credit @ Audrey Bizouerne
