Ask the Author: Sue Williams
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Sue Williams
C.S. Lewis's Narnia, and I'd befriend the lion Aslan and ask him the secret of eternal wisdom
Sue Williams
My most recent book was Healing Lives, about an extraordinary Australian doctor, Catherine Hamlin, who went to Ethiopia in 1959 to set up a midwifery school. She soon discovered that so many young women there were suffering from terrible childbirth injuries that blighted their lives forever, and vowed to help them. I visited Ethiopia in late 2017/early 2018 and met Catherine and her great friend, Mamitu Gashe, a young peasant woman she mentored who ended up becoming one of the world's greatest fistula surgeons herself - despite never being to school for a day in her life. I was so overwhelmed, I thought this was a story that HAD to be told. It was inspiring, heartwarming and absolutely glorious!
Sue Williams
As soon as you get involved in a story, I find i just want to continue. So I think of the characters, often put myself in their shoes, try to feel what I imagine they might be feeling, say what they might say, and behave as they might. Immediately, I'm swept away into a different world ...
Sue Williams
My first novel is about to come out in January, Elizabeth & Elizabeth, an historical fiction set in early colonial Australia about Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of the 'founder' of modern Australia Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and Elizabeth Macarthur, who helped create the wool industry. It's about an imaginary friendship between the pair -- despite their husbands' enmity -- that could well have happened. So I'm preparing for that release, anxious, nervous and hopeful!
Sue Williams
It can be intimidating and nerve-wracking getting started. But just put down that first sentence, then the second, then the third, knowing you can always go back later to refine. And then just keep writing and rewriting, like any skill, you get better with practice.
Sue Williams
Being able to explore other people's lives, whether real or imaginary, and discovering what makes us human. It feels such a privilege to be allowed in!
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