Hello, and welcome to my website - thanks for dropping by. Just a little about me: I write historical fiction, sometimes with a present-day timeline and sometimes entirely set in the past. I like this genre partly because I love the process of research (hours in the London Library, kidding myself I'm working) and partly because a few prompts from the past help to get my ideas flowing.
Sometimes I come across incidents that stop me in my tracks and insist on their place in a story: the round-up of Jews in Paris, 1942, for example, when parents were prepared to give their children to strangers in an attempt to save them. Or the moment in a Viennese park when a group of Nazi thugs humiliated elderly Jews by making them climb trees and pretend to be birds, or run until they collapsed with exhaustion.
The dangers and pressures we face today may be different but the same questions remain. How far would we go to protect those we love? Do we dare speak out against hatred and prejudice, no matter how high the cost? Is a life without freedom worth living?
When not pondering such weighty matters, I'm mostly walking my dogs, baking (sourdough and Dorset apple cake my specialities) and reading. Favourite authors include Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Strout, Anne Patchett and Kate Atkinson.
photo credit: byBallard
Hello, and welcome to my website - thanks for dropping by. Just a little about me: I write historical fiction, sometimes with a present-day timeline and sometimes entirely set in the past. I like this genre partly because I love the process of research (hours in the London Library, kidding myself I'm working) and partly because a few prompts from the past help to get my ideas flowing.
Sometimes I come across incidents that stop me in my tracks...
Publishing 26 March, 2026
This book continues the story of Jacques and Mathilde, whom we first met in The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris, but it can be read as a stand-alone title.
Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the Resistance...
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Paris, 1940: War is closing in on the City of Light. With his wife forced into hiding, Jacques must stand by and watch as the Nazis take away everything he holds dear. Everything except his last beacon of hope: his beloved bookshop, La Page Cachée.
But when a young woman and her child knock on his door one night and beg for refuge, he knows his...
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Berlin, 1933 The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya.
She can only watch on, horrified, as her beloved city falls to Fascism - and the usually law-abiding Freya is forced to make a choice: continue being a bystander, or put her...
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Daisy Wood writing as Jennie Walters: Thelma and Louise in wartime London. Two women meet by chance during a bombing raid in World War Two and seize the chance to escape their humdrum lives and start anew. How long can they stay under the radar, and what disasters lie ahead when their carefully constructed world falls apart?
'Just like that, this went from a good book to a brilliant book. Honestly, I didn't see the plot twist coming' Reader review
'Brilliant character development, absolute...
So pleased to say I have a new book publishing very soon, on 26 March - The Secrets of Provence. This is a companion volume to The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris, following the...
So happy to say that I have a new book publishing on 10 April: 'The Banned Books of Berlin'. This one took me a while to write but I was pretty happy with it in the end. My...