Susie has been a teacher, a tour-guide, a typist, a workshop facilitator, a PA and a painter. She formerly wrote and directed TV programmes for children at the BBC and Channel 4, for which she won a BAFTA Award. Susie lives in Bristol.
School for Nobodies is her debut middle-grade novel and is published by Pushkin Children’s Books; it came out on July 2nd, 2020. It was followed by another stand-alone middle-grade novel, The Three Impossibles, in June 2021. Her latest middle-grade novel, The Dangerous Life of Ophelia Bottom, will be published this summer, on August 4th.
Shoo!, Susie’s first picture book, was out on September 30th 2021, published by Pushkin.