Isla McCain is a Scottish writer from the Central Belt who writes about ordinary people making the wrong choice for completely understandable reasons, loving people they probably shouldn't, trying their best even when their best is a bit of a disaster.

She loves Scotland and firmly believes there is no better place to be than here, curled up by the fire with a book that'll hurt your heart.

She is currently working on her third novel and it is going absolutely fine.

She also uses em and en dashes despite not being a robot.

I struggle to push through the sometimes tedious introductions of romance novels. We all know what we're here for, let's stop messing about.

There'll be no will they/won't they on my watch. There will only be they definitely will if they haven't already.

I don't do misunderstandings a text could solve or a sister mistaken for a girlfriend. I read all of those, avidly, but I don't write them.

My books are full of real people who know what to do, trying to figure out how to do it. And real life doesn't promise happy endings.