When Jo isn’t writing romcoms or thinking about Ryan Reynolds, she’s often wandering around Europe looking for the perfect wine and cheese pairing.

Her wanderlust began at an early age, growing up in Germany before settling in the North of England, but only until she was old enough to wander over to The Hague to become a politician. Her plans were thwarted when she got as far as Manchester and fell madly in love with a DJ. 

She then spent years working in Turkey as a holiday rep, in the Alps at a ski resort and in the south of France trying hard not to drink a vineyard out of business before, eventually, administering some very poor linguistic skills on the unsuspecting population of Valencia in Spain, as a teacher. She then got terribly distracted with being a mother to a couple of Dark Lords, as well as wife to a husband currently enjoying the world's longest mid-life crisis, before suddenly remembering her previous ambition for world peace and politics…. oh yes, and to write a book. 

Jo recently persuaded her family to take an extended family gap year in Spain so that she could simultaneously lose weight (but sadly gave this pursuit up with alarming speed) while realising her wish for over-achieving children (also abandoned this plan rather early on), which is when she started writing on the commute back and forth from Alicante to Newcastle. She spent an enormous amount of time listening to complete strangers tell her their entire life story on every flight - practically writing the novels for her. She combines working in Education with successfully hiding from her family so that she can write the next novel.