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Catherine Meyrick

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Born

Australia

Website

https://catherinemeyrick.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Historical Fiction, Romance

Member Since

March 2018

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Catherine Meyrick is an Australian writer of romantic historical fiction. Her stories weave fictional characters into the gaps within the historical record – tales of ordinary people who are very much men and women of their time, yet in so many ways are like us today. These are people with the same hopes and longings as we have to find both love and their own place in a troubled world.

Catherine lives in Melbourne, Australia but grew up in Ballarat, a large regional city steeped in history. Until recently she worked as a customer service librarian at her local library. She has a Master of Arts in history and is also an obsessive genealogist. When she is not writing, reading and researching, she enjoys gardening, the cinema and music of all s ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 1,422 ratings · 154 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Forsaking All Other 4.17 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bridled Tongue 4.20 avg rating — 437 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Blows the Wind 4.22 avg rating — 435 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And the Women Watch and Wait: A novel of the Great War in Australia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My Reading – December 2025

Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp
‘Now that is the kind of girl I would like to marry!’ George Orwell told a friend excitedly, the night he met Eileen O’Shaughnessy.

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
He was lying on a varnished wooden board, the top of a boxed in radiator.

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Catherine Meyrick started reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Catherine Meyrick rated a book really liked it Boleyn Traitor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11) by Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Catherine Meyrick rated a book liked it Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3.5 stars. Well written but ... Despite Funder's claims to the contrary, in many ways this book seems more like an attempt to discredit George Orwell than shine a light on Eileen O'Shaughnessy, his wife. There were many things I disliked about the exec ...more
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Catherine Meyrick rated a book it was amazing Eileen: The Making of George Orwell (EPUB edition) by Sylvia Topp	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Catherine Meyrick rated a book really liked it The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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