Newfoundland and Me

Newfoundland is worming its way more and more into my soul, and out again in my writing.

When I started writing in the '90s in Scotland most of my stories were set either there, or in London where I spent the '80s. I appear to need to be tied to a sense of place for work to come easily. With Newfoundland, the ties fell into place naturally.

We came over on holiday in 2005, primarily on a whale watching trip to Trinity, and fell in love immediately with the area. There is much here that reminds me of home, in both the maritime landscape, and the warmth of the people, and although they're mostly of Irish descent around here, I felt an immediate kinship with their stories of ekeing a living out of a harsh sea, as it's something my own family have much experience of on the opposite side of the same ocean.

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