 Her most recent novel, "Butterfly's Shadow" set in mid-twentieth-century America and Japan, takes Giacomo Puccini's opera, 'Madama Butterfly' as a springboard to send the characters into an imagined future.She has also written several film scripts and screenplays, including television adaptations of Graham Greene's "The Tenth Man", several stories by Rumer Godden, and Barbara Taylor Bradford's "A Woman of Substance".She has written on travel and the arts for leading newspapers and magazines.