Hi all! Here is my debut memoir. The cover is still being finalised. "In the early morning hours, the projector rattles, and it starts to play. It’s a part I have no memory of, but it’s me. I’m forced to watch. I can’t shut my eyes because the movie is inside of me." Edie Dylan has been running away since she was two years old. In her early fifties, burnt out and desperate to escape London, she heads to Southeast Asia for a solo trip. But between beaches, a flatulent guide, and a horny fruit bat, there's something that refuses to let her relax. Thousands of miles away, Noor – a Syrian woman Edie has befriended through her refugee volunteer work – is also fleeing. She's planning to board a rubber dinghy with her two young children. As Noor's harrowing journey unfolds on Edie's phone, scenes from Edie’s own past begin elbowing their way in. On a remote island in the South China Sea, Edie’s body remembers what her mind has erased, forcing her to confront the one thing she can never run from. Told with an unflinching, poetic voice and unexpected wit, Safe Distance is the story of a woman discovering that the safety she'd sought her whole life was never about a place or distance. Due for publication in September 2026.