Beginner’s Pluck
Daughter of two doctors, Isabelle always wanted to write. She wrote short stories in her teens, then studied English at Cambridge. After university, she worked for a specialist antique dealer in London, started writing about her work, and through that, became a freelance journalist.
“I wrote several books on decorative arts, and in 1992 wrote dramas for TV, full time. I wrote mainly crime drama until the bottom fell out of TV drama about five years ago. That’s when I decided to write a novel. Once I got the idea, it flowed easily.”
