Gabrielle Kimm

Gabrielle Kimm was born in the north of Scotland, the third of four daughters, but She grew up in Sussex. During my late-teens and twenties, she studied and worked in Reading, London and Oxford but then moved back to Sussex, where she's been ever since, living between the sea and the South Downs, where big skies meet open countryside and where, if you are a seafarer (which she's not) the tides in the creeks bossily dictate what you can do when, on a daily basis.

She has a BA in English Language and Literature, from the University of Reading, a PGCE in English from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Creative Writing (Distinction) from the University of Chichester.

She's the mother of two teenage girls, and they share their lives with an elderly and charming Lakeland Terrier.