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Out of the blue…
As you may know, I’m very family oriented… I only have one sister, but I am very close to my cousins and not only keep in regular contact but go on holiday with them… all at once! That means there is...
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Radwinter – now published!
I am delighted to announce that my latest novel Radwinter is available on Amazon! It is an e-book and can be downloaded onto a Kindle, or onto anything else if you have the Kindle app. I am really...
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Dressing the part
I was delighted to have two cousins visit yesterday; we had a lovely day together, we talked, and laughed and compared notes and looked at photographs to do with our shared great-grandparents. We had...
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How to tell our story
I mentioned in a previous post that I had a wonderful day with my cousins, talking about our family and looking at old photos. Our great-grandparents have a fascinating story to tell; they came from...
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Village news
I’ve been asked to write an article for the village magazine, and I thought I would give you a sneak preview! My family has always been great ones for telling stories, stories about our parents and...
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Inventing a genealogy
In the book I am working on a t the moment, Magick, about a search for a family’s history (there si a bit of a mystery and a bit more to it than just a trail through the archives!) there is another...
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Untell the story
There’s a line in a favourite song which has somehow become ‘untell the story’ in my mind… and the little phrase has stuck with me. I am writing a sequel to my latest novel Radwinter at the moment, and...
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Tying up the ends
I am in the final stages of getting my next book, Magick, ready for publication. I am going through it so carefully, because not only are there all the usual sort of things to correct, amend, tidy up,...
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Tambourer
While researching for my next novel Magick (published next week!) I do a lot of research into past lives as my story is partly about a genealogical search. My main character is researching his own...
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Family trees
An elderly uncle is thinking about setting up his abandoned computer and researching his family tree.I admire his interest and hope he will enjoy doing so, the only slight worry is that a) he will...
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Louise… but is she the right Louise?
A great-uncle of mine was married to a young woman called Elsie; everyone in the family knew her as Elsie, but it turns out her name was actually Louise. Tragically she and her new-born daughter both...
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Telling stories
I write stories, and tell them through what I write, but my stories are fiction and are usually long and with many characters and different twists and turns in the plots… But telling a story implies...
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Billy Rinds
Who was Billy Rinds? His name came up in our family tree research after a conversation with a distant cousin; he may have been a comedian, or the ‘straight’ man to a comedian… but who he was and how...
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Free tree?
I never intended to write more than a single novel about the Radwinter family, and yet somehow, there are now three novels about their searches for their family history… and actually, there are a...
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Yellow bricks
In my genealogical novels about the family history of the Radwinter family, the main character Thomas researches the lives of his forebears; here are no ‘exciting’ discoveries of links to royalty or...
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Finding a way to tell a story
The story I want to tell is about my grandparent; the truth of their love affair is lost in the secrecy imposed on their relationship by disapproving relatives and discrete,and maybe ashamed...
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Who is she
I was given this portrait by a cousin who inherited it from her mother who told her it was a portrait of our common great-grandmother. Her mother had always hung the picture in her house at the top of...
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Tony, Nora, Richard, Barbara… who?
I have inherited a box full of photos, memorabilia, half-complete family trees and notes from an aunt, an aunt who was very much part of my family and was fascinated by our ancestry – before the...
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Who was Annie Davey?
I mentioned that my cousin gave me a box of what can only be described as ‘stuff’ which came from my late aunty. My aunty was always fascinated by her family history, but sadly she declined before I...
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Who is she
I was given this portrait by a cousin who inherited it from her mother who told her it was a portrait of our common great-grandmother. Her mother had always hung the picture in her house at the top of...
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