Born in Staffordshire, Louise lived in various places before settling in the heart of the National Forest on the Leicestershire/Derbyshire border.

She decided she wanted to write novels when she was 10 and pursued this ambition by training as a journalist (to learn how to write) before moving into the world of corporate communications. Over the past 30 years there have been quite a lot of days when she has earned a living by writing, Unfortunately, none of them have coincided with novel writing.

Louise writes the stories she would like to read and gets inspiration primarily from random conversations and genealogy.