At the age of eight, Julie wrote her first novel about a psychedelic dragon who longed to be plain green or brown.

Sadly her teacher didn't have time to read the story and Julie vowed never to write anything that ambitious again! Julie went on to become a journalist.

She wrote for a daily newspaper in Australia, then lived in Spain for a while, before returning to England and working as a features editor and ‘mother and baby’ columnist.

After her daughter Tilly, now 14, was born, Julie started to train as a teacher at Westminster College, Oxford, where she was taught by Philip Pullman. Realizing teaching wasn’t for her, she decided instead to return to her academic studies. She completed her BA in English before going on to gain a Master of Studies in Women’s Studies at Oxford University. An idea for her Masters thesis became her inspiration for her book 'Follow Me Down'.

Julie lives in Abingdon in Oxfordshire, the market town where she was born, with her daughter.

Biography supplied by Oxford - Last updated June 2003

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