Christi Daugherty – also known as CJ Daugherty – is a best-selling writer of Young Adult thrillers and crime novels. As a child, she would lose herself in books and literary adventures as a way of coping with her own unstable and violent family life. Her father was controlling and abusive – her home was miserable until her mother plotted a secret midnight escape.

Her latest book written as CJ Daugherty is called Number Ten.

Presenter: Emily Webb

Producer: Maryam Maruf

Picture: Christi Daugherty

Credit: Jack Jewers

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