Martin Simmons

I studied psychology and had a career in mental health and education. In the nineties, I co-wrote a self-help book entitled 'Stress, Anxiety & Depression', published by Speechmark.

These days I love to write imaginative, adult fiction. Using my combined knowledge of the human mind and foreign travel, Brainwaves takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride across four continents.

Brainwaves has been a huge challenge, involving extensive research and hours of trying to imagine how bewildering it would be to wake up and start life again in someone else's body.

For my second novel I've chosen a very different theme. A woman in her mid-seventies, with obvious signs of dementia, makes a last bid for freedom forcing her distraught children to follow her to France. As they race to find her, they become caught up in a horrific forest fire...