Louise is a librarian and author who lives with her family in Hampshire. She has worked in all sorts of libraries in her thirty year career, including public libraries, private collections, and both primary and secondary school libraries. She even once single-manned a tiny, 18th Century haunted library. She currently manages a secondary school library in Hampshire, and has the pleasure and privilege of enthusing teenagers to read.

Her debut novel, Operation Moonlight, won the Penguin Random House First Novel competition in 2019, and was published in 2022. She is now represented by literary agent LBA Books.

Louise is passionate about women’s history. She loves nothing more than discovering the stories of ordinary women in the past who achieved extraordinary things, but whom history has forgotten.

Her new historical novel, Women of War, was published in 2025 with Penguin, and the sequel, The Library of War and Peace, is due to be published in early 2026.

She is the resident writer at her local independent book shop, Goldfinch Books, and regularly hosts author events there. She also runs a large book club, a monthly writing group, and gives talks on the real women who inspire her stories.

When she isn’t writing, Louise can usually be found running, albeit slowly, in the countryside.