Geri Horner opens up about her lifelong love of literature, how she feels about being a best-selling author – and what her husband and children really think of her books

Long before she made her name in one of the world’s most successful girlbands, Geri Horner was a self-confessed lover of literature who enjoyed nothing more than whiling away her days lost in the pages of a good book in her garden.

Now a mother of two and a stepmum, the former Spice Girl has returned to her literary roots as a best-selling author, with the latest volume in her Rosie Frost series, Rosie Frost: Ice on Fire, out now.

Just like Geri, her protagonist is a redhead, and in this tale of murder and revenge, young Rosie faces tough emotions following the death of her mother – a situation the author can relate to.

“She’s grieving. I lost my father when I was young,” says Geri, whose father Laurence died of a heart attack in 1993, a year before she joined the Spice Girls. “I know how grief can manifest in a very strange way when you’re young.”