Mental health nurse now a literary sensation

Global fame beckons for Ali Land and her bestselling debut novel Good Me Bad Me

Mental health nurse Ali Land became a bestselling author within days thanks to her debut novel Good Me Bad Me – a dark literary thriller – based on her experiences working with children and young people

Ms Land comes from two generations of nurses in a ‘super traditional’ military family and grew up ‘in the middle of nowhere’ in Scotland, with a boarding school education to boot.

‘Any kind of fanciful idea or creative urge was quickly snuffed,’ she said, explaining parental advice was ‘to get a job and pay the bills’.

She had no inkling during the resulting ten-year career in mental health nursing children and young people, in the UK and Australia, that