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After various careers (cocktail waitress, kibbutz worker and office manager amongst many others!), I went back to university at the age of 26 and settled into seven years' training as an architect. As soon as I'd finished, I went to work in South Africa which was where the idea for Sundowners, my first novel, was born. I spent the next few years teaching in different universities in the UK and the US, but somehow never completely let go of the idea of writing for a living. In 1996, I met my wonderful agent, who kept at me to 'keep at it.' I did, and finally, almost ten years later, in 2004, I held the first copy in my hot little hands! But, having spent so long training to be an architect, I found I couldn't completely give that up either, so in 2005, I went back 'home' to Ghana, where I grew up, and built my own house. I now split my time between Accra and Hackney with the odd couple of months in a wee cottage outside Edinburgh where I begin each novel in between. It's taken a while to get used to living in three places almost simultaneously, but I love it. For a couple of shots of my house in Accra, click here ►. |
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