As the daughter of a BBC correspondent (with thought-provoking connections to the security services), Victoria spent a significant part of her early life in Moscow and hanging around BBC newsrooms with interesting people. This inspired her to go on and study politics at the London School of Economics, where she specialised in Soviet and Eastern European politics. After a year teaching politics to crazy rich Americans at the Charles University in Prague, Victoria went on to work on the other side of the political spectrum, as a lobbyist in Westminster. Victoria soon realised that the vagaries of British politics and the surrounding circus was not for her and she took a leap, spending two years living in New York, running events for large financial, corporate, and political organisations.
Having been exposed to the cutthroat worlds of international politics and high finance, Victoria pursued her need to tell stories, and escaped to drama school (LAMDA). Wonderful as the life of a touring actor was, Victoria realised she was too much of a control freak to be an actor and turned her creative storytelling skills to better use and started a career in live events. This form of storytelling and production suited Victoria very well. She produced events like the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall, BAFTA Film awards, the opening ceremony of both the Olympics, and the Rugby World Cup at Twickenham.
During the Covid lockdowns, Victoria finally had time to explore a long-held but scary dream and started writing – mainly because her mother came to stay for the second lockdown and Victoria needed an excuse to go and hide in the garden shed. And now, Victoria can’t/won’t stop writing.