Welcome…

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I've spent most of my life trying to understand people.​ This diverse journey has taken me from mental health wards and research laboratories to investment banks and MBA classrooms. Along the way, I graduated as a psychiatric nurse, earned a degree in psychology, completed postgraduate studies in both organisational and clinical psychology, and finally a PhD in Personality Psychology from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. I was also personally trained by the late Professor Paul Ekman at the University of California, San Francisco, to detect the fleeting facial expressions that reveal concealed emotion. People are wonderfully complicated—which is probably why I've never stopped being curious about them.

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I've worked as a nurse, psychologist, consultant and business school professor, across the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, and for years, I wrote academically about personality and human behaviour. These days, after completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing at the University of York, I’ve turned to psychological fiction and drama instead. So, after a lifetime studying people, I now have fun inventing them.

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