She is the daughter of the dramatistDennis Potter. She was her father's secretary, and head of the ''Whistling Gypsy'' production company for TV dramas, most of which were written by her father. She wrote a novelization of his TV play ''Brimstone and Treacle'', published by Quartet Books in 1982. She has also written on women's cricket for ''The Times''. She was in a long-term relationship with sports journalist Alan Lee, who died in 2015.