About Victoria

Victoria’s first novel, Patience, was the Booksellers’ Association Book of the Month and LoveReading Debut of the Month. Both Patience and her second novel, Grace, are Amazon bestsellers.

Victoria also writes historic, gothic fiction as Victoria Darke. Her first novel in this genre, The House In The Water, will be published by Boldwood in May 2024.

She started her career as a broadcast journalist at the BBC, before moving into the freelance world, working for outlets like the Telegraph and Al Jazeera. When she’s not writing novels, she lectures in Journalism at Kingston University and writes scripts for popular podcasts.

Victoria lives on a Thames island with her husband and two children and a cat called Alice.


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