Unearthing Stories: My Journey to the Next Book

Many of you know me for my historical fiction, tales like The Pearler’s Wife, The Orphan of Good Hope, and The Trouble with Tigers. If you’ve read them, you’ll know my writing process usually begins with a kernel of truth – a forgotten detail, a whisper from the past – that sparks that ever-present question in my mind: “what if?”

That “what if” then becomes a relentless tug, driving me into the heart of history, sifting through records, and imagining the lives of those left out of the grand n...