Is a writer of fiction, an award-winning journalist, and now a children's author. 

 

Rafferty's first two works of fiction were both nominated for literary prizes. 

Her third, Foul Deeds Will Rise, about satanist ritual abuse, was published in June 2019 by independent publisher, Wild Wolf Publishing. 

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The novel is about satanist ritual abuse and was four years in the making - Wild Wolf are the third publisher to take it on.

 

Despite her track record, Rafferty had over 50 rejections from  agents and publishers for this controversial novel. She has battled for over twenty years to have the subject taken seriously and its victims respected.

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Her article in The National on the 25th anniversary of the Orkney sex scandal of 1991 was the first article for many years to posit the idea that satanist abuse actually happened and was followed swiftly by the response of Sarah Nelson, author of Tackling child sexual abuse: radical approaches to prevention, protection and support, published in 2016 by  Policy Press. 

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Her most recent book is Mary Braveheart Comes to the Cat Inn, the first in a series of three books for children. Mary is a feisty wee cat who battles through a storm to end up in a pub in Bumberland, where she bosses the three resident boy cats about and takes them on adventures.