 Amongst many other film and television series, she has appeared in Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "Queen Kong" (1976), "The Shout" (1978), "Father" (1990), and the film adaptation of Beryl Bainbridge's novel "An Awfully Big Adventure" (1995), directed by Mike Newell and starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.She has written a number of children's books, including her first, "The Haunted School", which was produced as a television mini-series and film.Bought by Disney, it won the Chicago International Film Festival Gold Award for Children's Films.