Keddie Hughes was born in Glasgow and for the past 30 years has built a successful career as a psychologist advising companies how to get the best out of their people. A shortened version of her Doctoral thesis on Trust was published in the academic press in 2014. Although passionate about her work in large multi national organisations, she has always had the ambition to write fiction. As a young girl she was obsessed with reading and writing stories but career, marriage and children intervened. Now she has decided to allow thirty years of suppressed story telling to be released. An Obstinate Vanity is her debut novel.