So obsessed with writing, I forget to tell readers what’s coming plus a big reveal

THE BIG REVEAL. (drum roll!) There are two books coming this year - books set in the same time period in the lives of the Belleville family, beginning in 1968 when the next generation are young adults. 

1950s fashion: How Julia and Catherine might have dressed

  I wanted to share this little bit of Friday frivolity - these images are from this website selling custom-made frocks - and I thought just how much this range was inspired by the 1950s. I can certainly see my character Catherine Cavendish in the little black number - and Julia in the two full …

I’m often asked: Is your book based on a real person? My American neuro surgeon was ….

Inspired by a real person, US Army surgeon Philippe Duval's story is a key thread in the Belleville novels

Brisbane – then and now, from a writer’s viewpoint

70+ years on (from my fictional Brisbane) this is now a modern city with some fine early buildings and a multi-cultural feel. It almost felt like a European city with its inner city open air market.

My Belleville family: Love affairs, seduction, temptation …. this story took on a life of its own

As I wrote the story, it took so many surprising turns.