Between 1989 and 2003, she worked for a variety of advertising agencies as a copywriter. She began to write novels after her youngest sister died of breast cancer. Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, in the same week she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Between 1989 and 2003, she worked for a range of advertising agencies as a copywriter. She started writing novels after her youngest sister passed away from breast cancer. Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, on the same week she received her breast cancer diagnosis.