Jo Platt

Jo Platt was born in Liverpool and, via the extremely winding route of rural Wiltshire, London, Seattle and St Albans, now finds herself nicely settled, with a husband and two children, in Bristol.

Jo studied English at King's College London and, upon graduation, her first paid employment (other than her student occupation of cleaning in a psychiatric hospital), was as a besuited office worker in a large City institution. She was held happily captive by the City for ten years, before finally escaping into motherhood and part-time employment, first as an assistant teacher in Seattle, and then as a Bristol-based secretary to her husband.

After many years of writing purely for the entertainment of family and friends, Jo took a deep breath and decided to see whether anybody else might find what she had to say entertaining. "Reading Upside Down", published in 2013, was the result; a debut which has since sold to publishers internationally.

To find out more about Jo, both past and present, visit her website www.joplatt.co.uk or catch up with her daily ramblings on Twitter @JoPlattTweets