My books

My first novel, The Most Terrifying Thing, is a psychological mystery and includes facets of Carl Jung’s shadow theory. Always fascinated by this work, I set about telling the story of an inept, autistic psychologist, injecting humour and imaginative, poetic descriptions which come naturally to me, and a shadow.

Set in the autumn of psychologist, Robin Goodfellow’s life, we find him riddled with hangups and guilt from the loss of the only woman who ever loved him. She disappeared, or did she?

A new patient enters his living nightmare and fires his belief in the supernatural, and with it hope of finding the love he has lost along with his salvaged sanity.

In the dawn of denial, owning up is terrifying, when an uninvited visitor, the shadow, challenges his ethics with exasperating, constructive abuse!

Can he man up and complete the journey back to good mental health?

The title is part quote from Jung; ‘The Most Terrifying Thing…’  ‘is to accept oneself completely’.  But accept we must in order to be a fully functioning adult. 

‘Who Stole the Moon’ was a short, illustrated book written for my nephew’s children. It tells a story around the children’s experience of the moon and its phases.

More to come on this.

‘Ollie and the Octopus’ is a working title, which presents the internal world of an autistic boy in his home environment and at school. It starts with his assessment by a psychologist and the fun starts there.

More to come on this.