Throughout a science-biased education and subsequent years employed in graphic design and web site development, Alison Buck has all the while been scribbling away, committing her stories to disc. Although, as a rule, she concerns herself with apparently quite normal, everyday characters, populating what appear to be quite normal and everyday surroundings, the events and dangers they encounter are rarely commonplace; Alison’s can be very dark, unsettling tales.

But whatever the origin of these often menacing undercurrents in her stories, Alison assures us that they are completely at odds with the happy and relatively menace-free family life she enjoys with her husband, son and daughter in Kent.