About Sophie
Sophie has been writing books since she rediscovered her childhood love of stories on a writing course in the early 2000s. Her first novel, teen thriller Girl, Missing, quickly became a bestseller, and garnered multiple awards, as well as spawning two sequels. Since then, Sophie has written many more thrillers for young adult readers, including Blood Ties, the winner of the national Children’s Book Award, and The Medusa Project series about a group of crime-fighting teenagers with psychic abilities. Two of her more recent suspense stories for teenagers have focused on the environment, dramatising the impact of toxic waste (Truth or Dare) and climate change (Storm of Lies), while Secret Sister revisits the world of the Missing series a generation on.​
Sophie’s first foray into writing for adult readers was the Richard and Judy book club hit Close My Eyes. A second standalone psychological thriller, Trust in Me, was a Sunday Times bestseller and since then Sophie has gone from strength to strength, with her most recent thrillers, Anything for You (January 2025) and Burn This (July 2025).
In addition to her work for teens and adults, Sophie has also written several short stories and books for younger children. She is proud to have worked with specialist publisher Barrington Stoke to produce a number of dyslexia-friendly adventure stories for teenage readers. Her work reflects her many passions as a consumer of fiction and also includes Becoming Jo, a contemporary re-imagining of Little Women, as well as Dr Who short book, Frida Kahlo and the Skull Children, part of the Dr Who:Icons series.
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Born and brought up in London, Sophie liked stories in all their forms at school, especially when it involved acting in plays! As a teenager she took on various part-time jobs, working as, among other things, a waitress, a shop assistant and an usherette in a West End theatre. After getting her degree in English Literature, Sophie became a journalist and, later, an editorial manager in a business publishing company, but it was when she started writing stories that she knew she had found work she really loved. Thirty published novels later, her passion for stories remains undimmed and, in addition to her time spent creating her own, she works as a tutor helping others with their creative writing. www.storystepslondon.com
Married, with a grown-up son, Sophie lives in London.
Key likes: cake, acts of kindness, satisfying endings
Key dislikes: rats, rudeness, shoe-shopping