Cesca read History at Bristol University. She went on to work in television as a researcher and presenter for four years before becoming a History teacher. Her first real writing success came in 2005 when she was Runner Up in the Daily Mail Writing Competition for the best opening paragraph to a novel. She has won, or been placed, in some short story competitions since then including the annual competitions for: Women and Home, Wells Festival of Literature, Grace Dieu and has also had a short story published in the Sentinel Literary Magazine. She reads widely and has written regular reviews and features for the popular women's fiction website www.novelicious.com. She currently works as a Housemistress at a Secondary boarding School in Berkshire. She lives in Bradfield with her husband and their brood of ex-battery chickens.
The Silent Hours is her first novel.