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Where the Bellbird Sings
Nearly fifty years have passed since Elizabeth last saw the colonial house in Nelson, New Zealand, where she once boarded as a young teacher...
No White Flowers, Please
The “Roaring Twenties” was the era of the flappers, those bright young things who cut their hair and raised their hemlines. But for Rhoda Pritchard...
When This War Is Over
When This War Is Over is the sequel to No White Flowers, Please. Rhoda Pritchard, 19 years old, has moved from Bath to Salisbury...
First Names Only
Janice at 18 is ambitious and sets her sights on a top degree in languages, until she is swept off her feet by a clever young architect. When she finds she is...
Hearts Set Free
Grant and Debra are renovating their country cottage when they find a packet of love letters that have lain hidden behind a fireplace for over two...
Miranda
Miranda is a black ex-slave, now the owner of a sugar plantation in Jamaica in the late eighteenth century. Her battle to overcome...
Katey the Beach Cat
The real and imaginary adventures of Katey, a black and white cat who lives at a beach house in New Zealand. Katey The Beach Cat...
Rose And Peach
At The Beach
Rose and Peach are two very special chickens. Adopted by Tracy when they are one day old she loves them...
Here Today,
Gone Tomorrow
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow is a travelogue with a difference. Two retired women set off in a campervan from London...
If Only
The pampered daughter of a wealthy man, Alice has the choice between two eligible and attractive men. But this is the era of...
Beyond the Horizon
Torn from all that is familiar and dear, Louise finds herself in Newgate, that most notorious of British prisons...
A Shining Path
Most women convicts sent to Australia in the early 1800s were forced into a life of servitude, where they are not only skivvies...
Call of the Kookaburra
Call of the Kookaburra is the third and final book in a series following several British convict women who were...
I was born in Salisbury, England in 1941. After the war, when I was five years old, we moved to New Zealand and settled in Auckland. We lived in a very old villa in Epsom with spacious grounds and large well established trees. As my only brother was six years younger than I was he was not old enough to be a companion and so I turned to books. After reading all the Enid Blyton books I could get my hands on I began on the children’s classics and at ten was introduced to Dickens by my teacher. From an early age I loved writing stories and English was my favourite subject… Read More
