Sue's writing career started in London around 1980, with various assignments for magazines and newspapers, and her first radio work, Big and Little, which won a Sony Award for Best Children's Programme. Other radio projects have included the series Up the Garden Path, The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, and The Sit-Crom. Various radio shows have invited Sue aboard as a guest, including: Stop the Week, A Word in Edgeways, Quote Unquote, A Good Read, Loose Endsand Woman's Hour.
She has been shortlisted for the Smarties Prize for Come Back Grandmaand has also written the new Ruby Rogers series for younger readers for Bloomsbury. Forthcoming for the same readership as Girl, 15is Zoe and Chloe, set at the same school that Jess Jordan and Fred Parsons attend.
Sue lives on a remote organic farm near Nailsworth in Gloucestershire.