A few times while writing The Space Between, I woke up in the middle of the night with a sentence in my head.

Not a full chapter. Not a clear plan. Just a line or an idea that refused to go back to sleep.

So I would get up, open my laptop, and write it down before it disappeared again.

Once, it wasn’t even a sentence. It was a feeling from a dream. I woke up with the emotion of it still very clear, and that moment eventually became a whole chapter in the book.

It was about distance — the kind that isn’t just physical, but emotional. The kind that quietly shapes the spaces between people and makes you reflect on the relationships that matter most.

In a way, that feeling ended up becoming part of the heart of the story.

Most of the time, though, writing this novel didn’t look very glamorous.

It looked like finishing a shift at work, making a cup of tea, and opening my laptop in the evening to work on a manuscript that slowly grew over time.

During the day, I’m having conversations about KPIs, performance and targets.
In the evening, I’m editing paragraphs, rewriting sentences, and sometimes wondering whether a chapter needs to be changed all over again.

It’s an unusual combination.

What many people don’t see is how long this actually took.

The first idea for what eventually became The Space Between came to me more than twelve years ago. I started writing then, full of energy and ideas.

And then life happened.

At one point I stopped writing for nearly eight years. I couldn’t move the story forward and, for a long time, I wasn’t sure I ever would.

But the idea never completely left me.

Every now and then something would come back — a thought, a line, a moment that made me open the document again.

Slowly, the story began to take shape.

Most of the process of writing a book happens quietly. No one sees the evenings you spend working on it, or the moments where you decide to keep going even when it feels difficult.

But those small steps eventually add up.

Over time, that early idea became a finished novel — The Space Between — and the beginning of something else as well: my own independent imprint, Falcon House Press.

Looking back, the biggest lesson has probably been this: you don’t need perfect conditions to begin something meaningful.

Sometimes you just build it alongside everything else.

As one line in The Space Between says:

“She had always been more than she had been led to believe.”

Normal life.

Unusual dream.

Releases 20th March 2026