I was a secondary school English teacher before writing my first novel, but I just knew I had to take a chance and leave the profession to focus on my writing. It was a huge risk but I was lucky enough to find my agent quickly. However, after being unable to find a publisher for my first novel, we ended up self-publishing it on Amazon. Thankfully, it did well and after self-publishing my second book, I was offered a book deal with Bookouture.
If you had to give an elevator pitch for While You Were Sleeping, what would it be?
A woman wakes up next to the dead body of her neighbour but has no recollection of how she got there.
He is not your husband. This is not your bed.
Tara Logan adores her perfect little family: husband, Noah, and two children, teenager Rosie and eleven-year-old Spencer.
But her happiness is shattered when she wakes in her neighbour, Lee Jacobs’ bed, with no memory of how she got there or what happened between them. And worse – he has been stabbed to death.
Convinced she didn’t kill Lee, Tara flees home and stays silent, holding her breath as the investigation grips the neighbourhood.
But as her daughter spirals out of control, and her husband becomes increasingly distant, Tara starts to wonder if someone in her own life knows what really happened that night. And when the police turn their questions towards her, Tara realises she has to find out.
But what will it take to uncover the real story, and can she survive the truth?
