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Category: The inspiration behind the books

The Snowy Mountains Scheme

July 4, 2026 cheryl Leave a comment

Why the Snowy Mountains Scheme? In Keepers, Teddy’s 21st birthday coincides with the beginning of construction of the vast engineering…

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Posted in: Australian history and growing up there, The inspiration behind the books Filed under: australia 1950s, Cabramurra, construction workers, Cooma, european immigration to Australia, historical fiction, Jindabyne

Post WW2 Migrant Hostels

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Why Post WW2 migrant hostels? Post WW2 migrant hostels – or one any way – play an important part in…

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Posted in: Australian history and growing up there, The inspiration behind the books Filed under: Australia, immigrants, migrant hostels, post world war 2, rationing england, ten pound poms, world war 2

Freddie’s Night Out

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Freddie’s Night Out was written for an autumn event at Jolter’s cider pub in the Forest of Dean, where cider…

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Posted in: Forest of Dean and River Severn history, folklore and myth, The inspiration behind the books Filed under: cider, flash fiction, Forest of Dean, perry cider, short stories

Sabrina’s Rising

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Sabrina’s Rising is inspired by the great flood which swept up the Severn Sea (now the Bristol Channel) on the…

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Posted in: Forest of Dean and River Severn history, folklore and myth, The inspiration behind the books Filed under: historical fiction, short stories, The Great Flood of 1607

Five Days – Five Nights

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Five Days – Five Nights is a piece of flash fiction inspired by the 1904 Union Pit disaster in the…

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Posted in: Forest of Dean and River Severn history, folklore and myth, The inspiration behind the books

Orchard Kingdom

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Orchard Kingdom is based on an early Australian childhood experience. The story won first prize in the inaugural Ottery St…

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Posted in: Australian history and growing up there, The inspiration behind the books

St George’s Vestry VAD

April 8, 2026 cheryl

This scene about St George’s Vestry VAD unit appeared in a draft of The Gift of Belonging (Book 3 in…

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Posted in: Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: historical fiction, romance, The Gift of Belonging, VADS, Voluntary Auxiliary Defence, women's fiction, world war one

The Welcome

March 14, 2026 cheryl

The Welcome is a scene which appeared in a draft of The Gift of Belonging (Book 3 in The Wise…

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Posted in: Forest of Dean and River Severn history, folklore and myth, Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: historical fiction, vad NURSES, VADS, women's fiction, WW1

VAD nurses WW1

December 18, 2025 cheryl

Readers of The Herbalist’s Daughters (the standalone book 2 in The Wise Women series), might remember that one of the…

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Posted in: Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: historical fiction, historical research, nursing, romance, vad NURSES, VADS, women's fiction, world war one, WW1

WW1 and herbal medicine

January 28, 2025 cheryl 2 Comments

In the course of research for my new book, the third in the Wise Women series, I discovered one of…

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Posted in: Herbal lore and healing traditions Filed under: herbal medicine, historical fiction, novels, women's fiction, world war one, writing

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