Ali was born in Cheltenham in central England but has been a resident of Torquay in Devon (on the sunny South Coast) for many years.
Ali started her career as an ‘author’ by researching and writing speeches for top civil servants but, for the last five years, has had the privilege of editing a glossy life-style charity magazine with a readership of 35,000 plus across Devon. She is also a published non-fiction features writer, mostly focusing on people and places, historical figures and events and the natural world. When need demands, Ali has also been known to turn her hand to cookery writing and crossword compiling!
When not travelling or writing, Ali also has a love of subtitled Scandi detective series, walking for fitness and logic problems and puzzles of all kinds.