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'Redundancy helped me become an author'
Mel Sherratt was working as a housing officer for Stoke-on-Trent City Council until redundancy changed her life.
She used it as a chance to follow her dream of being a published writer and went on to sell more than a million books.
The author - whose works include psychological thrillers - is expecting her 18th novel to be published in May.
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