Martine Daniel

Martine was born in York in 1981. From a young age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and whilst at secondary school she would often be caught scribbling stories in the back of exercise books during lessons. Her dreams of seeing her name in print never dimmed. After suffering a breakdown in 2003, she had to abandon her hopes of a career in bookselling and, after recovering, she began to pick up the pieces of her life and started work on her first novel The Fire in Your Eyes (published 2009), juggling work on the novel with her studies with The Open University. Legacy of Lies, the sequel to The Fire in Your Eyes, is her second novel. Martine hopes that by bringing the experience of mental illness alive in her works of fiction she can contribute to the ongoing battle to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues.Martine was born in York in 1981. From a young age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and whilst at secondary school she would often be caught scribbling stories in the back of exercise books during lessons. Her dreams of seeing her name in print never dimmed. After suffering a breakdown in 2003, she had to abandon her hopes of a career in bookselling and, after recovering, she began to pick up the pieces of her life and started work on her first novel The Fire in Your Eyes (published 2009), juggling work on the novel with her studies with The Open University. Legacy of Lies, the sequel to The Fire in Your Eyes, her second novel,is due out in late 2010 and her third novel, Wading the Waters of My Mind is due to be published in 2011. Martine hopes that by bringing the experience of mental illness alive in her works of fiction she can contribute to the ongoing battle to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues.