Dinah lives in East Sussex with her two children Leon 7 and Maisy 5. She began writing seriously about eight years ago. The main influences for the ‘Jordan’ books are her experiences of working as a youth worker in rural villages and a childhood spent immersed in ‘boy’ books such as the Just William series. Influences for characters come from time spent in the Territorial Army, encounters with some “nutty adults who were meant to be showing children the error of their ways” and her husband, whose Joinery firm Rise Joinery was “nicked” for the books in the form of Jordan’s dad’s firm “Rise building contractors”.
