Stories, people, places.

These are all part of the fabric of my life, of all our lives.
I wrote Benedict’s Brother in my mid-thirties.  It’s the story of a young woman, Benedict, who is asked by her uncle, a former Japanese prisoner-of-war, to scatter his ashes from the Bridge on the River Kwai in Thailand.  She has no idea why.

Like many novels it was initially rejected. Eight years later I removed the dusty manuscript from my bedside drawer and posted the first installment as a blog on the Internet.  My sister then offered to publish Benedict’s Brother – having never published a novel before.  It was Borders’ biggest selling launch of an unknown author that year.
Six months later it was selected as a Book of the Year in Publishing News.
Benedict’s Brother is now being developed as a film and I have the joy of working with some of the most talented people I could imagine.

My story has taken me back to those places, back to those beautiful people.
My aim as a writer is to produce the most beautiful stories that I have in me and to present them to you. It is important to me that your experience of my work is as beautiful as I can possibly make it.  That work never stops.
I have completed my second novel – a stand-alone story about family love -  and I am working on my third, a sequel to Benedict’s Brother.
Thank you for visiting my website and for the many of you who keep in touch. I always love hearing from you and I always read what you send.

With my kindest regards,

Tricia