It’s been a crazy few weeks. For those of you I’m already connected to – in person or via social media – you will already know that Many Hearts, One Voice was finally launched on Sunday, 1 November. The launch of Many Hearts, One Voice exceeded my hopes and expectations in more ways than one. Fremantle Press had […]
What have you dared to say yes to? And what was the outcome? When I tell people that my first book is about to be published, the response is usually, Really? Is it a novel? I explain that while I do write fiction, I’ve spent the last eight years researching and writing about war widows. The […]
With the Second World War and its aftermath at the core of Many Hearts, One Voice: the story of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia, the events of that time period have been on my mind for quite some time. I was therefore a little surprised (but probably shouldn’t have been) that the 70th anniversary […]
After almost eight years of researching, interviewing, drafting and editing, my manuscript is finally beginning to look like … a book. A little recap in case you missed it: In November 2007, I agreed to write the story of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia. In doing so, I discovered a courageous group of women whose […]