I have uni degrees in pharmacy and commerce and most recently worked as a medical writer. My husband and I, three sons and a menagerie of small animals all live together in a noisy, testosterone-filled Federation house in the inner-west of Sydney.

Yes—I share my house with four males. It's no wonder I've taken refuge writing women's fiction!

The youngest of my boys, Joe, is on the autism spectrum, and the inspiration behind my first book, the Australian Autism Handbook, which I co-wrote with the gorgeous Seana Smith. I enjoy writing about health issues, blog regularly on autism, and will shortly have a new book to add to the collection, a collaboration with Seana and Catherine Knox called Beyond the Baby Blues, a much needed guide to perinatal anxiety a depression.

That said, I've well and truly been bitten by the fiction bug and a second novel is starting to haunt my dreams.

P.S. In case you're wondering about my name (I bet some of you are) it's an O'Reilly family favourite and means 'a blessing'. I think my mum and dad still think it suits.