Writing the Sequel: How However Far We Fall Is Taking Shape

If you’ve read Wherever You Will Go, you’ll know it’s a story about love, identity, and hidden truths set against the backdrop of the Windrush generation. Well, I’m deep in the writing cave again — this time working on its follow-up, However Far We Fall.

Right now, my days are full of reading and re-reading the manuscript, scribbling notes, changing a street name but finding I had left it as the old name in one of the chapters. In what I'm hoping will be the final draft, I'm still finding the story is not flowing as well as it did in book 1. The new story continues the themes I love to write about — women finding strength through hardship, secrets from the past shaping the present, and the delicate balance between hope and heartbreak.

Writing a sequel is both exciting and daunting. You want to honour what came before while exploring new territory. With However Far We Fall, I’m revisiting familiar faces but also introducing new ones — people with their own struggles, triumphs, and histories to uncover.

One thing I’ve learned while writing sequels is that readers truly shape the journey. So many of you have written to tell me how deeply Wherever You Will Go resonated — how Essie’s courage and the story’s historical threads stayed with you. Those messages reminded me why I write: to give voice to the untold stories of women who loved, endured, and hoped through unimaginable change.

This new book will build on that — exploring what happens after the storm has passed, when healing begins, and when old secrets refuse to stay buried.

I can’t wait to share more as the draft takes shape — but for now, it’s back to my notebook and keyboard.

If you haven’t yet read Wherever You Will Go, now’s the perfect time to dive in before the next chapter arrives. And if you're reading this during Black History Month here in the UK (October 2025) then Wherever You Will Go e-book is only 99p!