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As a child, she lived in Kenya until she was eleven. When she was eighteen, her parents returned from Africa and she went to Manchester Art College. She dropped out after a year and joined a rock and roll band – Driving Rock and the Rockettes, she was a Rockette. They toured the local colleges and Universities as the warm up band to groups like Wizard and The Average White Band. She also worked in a hippie shop called On the Eighth Day. Her parents left Cathy and her elder brother in charge of their Manchester house (known as '355') with the idea that they let the spare rooms. Half of Manchester lived there at one time or another as they let the rooms to assorted mates, musicians and maniacs. It was a great era.

Later, Cathy worked as an occupational therapist in a mental hospital before returning to college and gaining a degree in comparative religion. She started writing books in 1986 and trained as an aromatherapist to supplement her writing. She wrote sixteen non-fiction books on various subjects ranging from health to humour. To supplement the feast or famine of writing, she read scripts for the comedy department at the BBC and did a two year stint reviewing the newspapers every Friday on Sky News. In 2001, she started writing teenage fiction and felt at last she'd found her niche.

Cathy now lives in North London with her husband Steve and three cats, each with different personality disorders (the cats that is) and feels very lucky and happy to at last be a full time author. To date (2007), she has had 42 books published, which are also published in 25 different countries.

Cathy's father is Billy Hopkins, also a best selling author of titles: Our Kid; High Hopes; Kate's Story; Going Places; Anything Goes and coming out in October 2007, Whatever Next!

As a child, she lived in Kenya until she was eleven. When she was eighteen, her parents returned from Africa and she went to Manchester Art College. She dropped out after a year and joined a rock and roll band – Driving Rock and the Rockettes, she was a Rockette. They toured the local colleges and Universities as the warm up band to groups like Wizard and The Average White Band. She also worked ... More