I quit my job of 25 years to write a book – and now I’m the author some other authors hate

Her debut novel, The List of Suspicious Things, published in 2024, quickly became a bestseller, reaching the top of The Sunday Times charts and becoming one of the best-selling first novels ever in the UK. It sold an impressive 10,000 copies in its first week—and remarkably, it was the very first thing she had ever written.








