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She co -wrote one of 1D’s biggest hits, and now singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan is doing it for herself with a stunning debut album. By Fiona McCarthy

SI N G E R - S O N G WR I T E R F I O N A B E VA N , 30, has already had a number one, although up until now she’s remained largely unsung. She was the co-writer of One Direction’s ‘Little Things’, which she penned in her living room over a cup of tea with good mate Ed Sheeran. With her first album Talk to Strangers being released this month, it’s time for this dreamy, offbeat beauty, and her halo of blonde curls, to take centre stage. Telling stories runs in Fiona’s blood – Treasure Island author Robert Louis

Stevenson was her great-great grandfather and her great grandmother

was D E Stevenson, author of 40 romantic novels. ‘There was always a sense of literary pride in my family; I grew up immersed in books,’

she says of her Suffolk childhood. At 15, she formed her first band and discovered that songwriting married perfectly her love for music and words in expressing her emotions. ‘My writing process is an attempt to understand

who I am as a woman, as a shy person, and as someone trying to

do something different.’ She describes her style as ‘pop in disguise. It’s important to me that no words are wasted. I want every song to be the best I can write; they all have to

be killer, not filler, tracks.’ Talk To Strangers will be released on

28 April on Navigator Records