WHEN I WAS INVISIBLE

In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers. Years later, however, they have both been dealt so many cruel blows that they walk away from each other into very different futures – one enters a convent, the other becomes a minor celebrity. Will these new, ‘invisible’ lives be the ones they were meant to live, or will they only find that kind of salvation when they are reunited twenty years later?

‘Do you ever wonder if you’ve lived the life you were meant to?’ I ask her.


She sighs, and dips her head. ‘Even if I do, what difference will it make?’

Dorothy wrote her first novel when she was thirteen years old, and hasn't stopped writing since. After finishing her masters degree, Dorothy began working as a writer, editing and subbing for various women's magazines and national newspapers. In 2001 Dorothy had the idea for The Cupid Effect - two years later it hit the shelves and her career as a published novelist began. Dorothy spent two years living in Australia, but now lives on the south coast of England where she continues to write.