Flight of Fancy

Heidi Edmundson was born by the sea and grew up surrounded by the legends of Northern Ireland’s spectacular Causeway Coast. Her parents and grandparents ran guesthouses in Portrush and she spent summer holidays working in the White House Department Store and the change box of Barry’s Amusement Arcade.As a child, she was fascinated by myths and fairy tales of all kinds. She was an avid reader of mystery stories, and dreamed of being Nancy Drew. Her love of crime fiction developed in adolescence when, one summer, she discovered a box full of Agatha Christie books with the original Fontana covers.After attending Coleraine High School, she went to university in Dundee to study medicine and has worked as a doctor since 1994, predominantly for the NHS. She currently lives in North London where she has been a consultant in Emergency Medicine for over ten years. She is a passionate advocate for staff wellbeing and building positive workplace cultures.

‘Absorbing, original, entertaining and fascinating’Louis de Bernières – author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Light Over Liskeard‘Vulpe is a delight to spend time with, intense and charmingly odd, as she investigates her dense and imaginative world’ Holly Gramazio – author of The Husbands