Beginner’s pluck: Full-time writer and mother Daria Lavelle

'Aftertaste' is a gourmet delight; it's highly original and hugely evocative, it definitely tugs at the heartstrings

Daria Lavelle worked in advertising as a brand strategist for 10 years, but she didn’t stop writing.

From a creative family, literature has always played a large part in Daria’s life.

“I was an imaginative child,” she says. “I invented stories and games, and at 15, I started writing seriously.”