The Road to a Novel

The road to a novel is paved with research, frustration, terrible drafts, and writer's block. On the upside, there are also excitements and adrenaline rushes when you hit on a brilliant idea. When you get so engrossed in a conversation between two characters that you half-forget you're writing it, that counts as fun.

The road I've been traveling on the way to This is Edith is documented on my research blog: www.shakespearestreet.blogspot.co.nz. Check it out, if you're interested.

An Introduction

This is Edith is not my first novel, but it is the one I've a serious mind to publish. My first passion was writing fantasy, but that's for another blog.

Erena Conroy has hardly given a thought to her sister Edith in forty years. She's done exactly what their father wanted everyone to do: forget.

But while sailing to New Zealand at the end of the First World War, her husband John gives her a scrapbook that once belonged to Edith. As Erena reads through the scrapbook, she is taken back to her childhood in the coastal town of Southport. She is forced to face the truth about Edith's disturbing gifts and the injustices dealt to her, and the possibility that John had more to do with her than anyone realised.

Based on true events, This is Edith explores the bond between siblings, the power of a father's influence, and one man's choice between love and justice.