Born in 1972 in the Metn region of Lebanon, Nathalie and her family moved to England in 1983 when Israel invaded Lebanon. She won the Radio 4 Dotdotdot short story competition in 2001. She is the author of 'The Double in the Fiction of RL Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier' (2003) and has co-edited various books for Usborne.