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Hello!

Welcome to my website. I have set it up to publish some of my book "Growing Out of Trouble", to give other people a chance of reading it, and to (hopefully) get some positive feedback which will help in my quest to get it published.

The book is very much of the "Chick-Lit" / "Mum-Lit" style, but I like to think it’s an intelligently written, thought provoking book too, and that it doesn’t pander too much to the genre’s erring towards fantastical situations and unrealistic characters.

I began writing it when I was experiencing some difficult times after the birth of my daughter, so I just wrote what I wanted to read. I wanted to read about someone like me, coming to terms with the tidal wave of shock that is a newborn baby, with lots of difficult decisions and situations in the world around her, but I also wanted to read something funny and light hearted to cheer me up. Ultimately I wanted to enter a world where, (because I am an eternal optimist, not to mention a bit of a romantic), no matter how tough things might be, I felt totally safe, and knew that in the end everything would turn out alright.

So, I created my heroine, Katie, a good egg, but with plenty of human flaws; someone I identified with, fairly normal and typical of me and my friends. I gave her a group of friends, the sort that I would like to have as my friends, I gave her London to live in, because I love it so much, and I gave her a journey, to give her inner strength, make her believe in herself and follow her dreams. Finally, to help her on her way, I gave her a fairy Grandmother, and a gift called Norman. Of course the story wouldn’t be complete without a handsome prince, so I also gave her a sprinkling of admirers and an ex-boyfriend, who maybe, just maybe, might be "The One" after all.

I hope you enjoy reading the section of the book published here, if you do, please let me know, via the email address on my Contacts page, or via the Facebook group "I want to read the end of Daisy Bennett’s book". I need as much positive feedback as I can get, because I want to prove that there’s an audience out there for it. (Feel free to let me know if you don’t like it either, after all, practice makes perfect!)

Love Daisy