Hi, I’m Ciar, thanks for visiting my website!
My debut novel, A Deadly Discovery, is published on 26 September 2024 and I can’t wait for you to read it. Set in my hometown of Lewes, East Sussex, in 1928, it is a Golden Age murder mystery starring Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell as a pair of unlikely sleuths.
You can also find me writing about gardening in the Daily Mail on Saturday and for The Lady magazine, and about media for InPublishing. I’m a former Arts and Media Correspondent for The Independent and have worked as a staff journalist for The Guardian website and Private Eye.
I have a Garden Design Diploma from the English Gardening School at Chelsea Physic Garden and an RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Horticulture from Plumpton College in East Sussex. For three years I spent one day a week volunteering in the garden at Charleston farmhouse, the country retreat of Vanessa and Duncan Grant. It was while weeding in the borders that I first began to imagine what life must have been like when they were living there and Virginia came to visit, and the seed of an idea was born…