Tea: Yes, absolutely! I’m glad you understand. Jenny: It’s funny I had a similar sort of education and even the guys that came in to lay the carpet – well men were so rare that you ogled them all, didn’t you? It was an all girls school, so he was the only male on the premises, the poor guy. Tea: No! He was bald and probably forty, which seemed really old. Jenny: Was the gardener particularly spunky? Tea: It was a long time ago, things have changed a lot since then! Jenny: Just allowing myself to be diverted for a moment- these days if girls started to write stories like that, they’d probably be congratulated on their initiative, wouldn’t they! Two of us actually did go onto work as journalists, so it honestly had an impact on us. So I suppose if there was a catalyst, it was that. It did get us into trouble, and we had to go our separate ways! The power of words if you like, and how believable a fiction story can be. But I guess the light bulb moment was when I was in boarding school, and a group of us decided to write a story on the school gardener. I was one of those little girls who stayed in her bedroom, and made little books, sewing the sides together and things like that. Tea: I can’t really remember a time when I didn’t want to write stories.
Jenny: Beginning at the beginning – was there a “Once Upon A Time” moment when you decided you wanted to write fiction? And if there was a catalyst, what was it? Tea: Thank you very much for the invitation, it’s lovely to be talking with you. Hello there Tea and welcome to the show, it’s great to have you with us. What follows is a “near as” transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions. What she’d do differently second time around.Her gradual morph from romance to historical mystery.Her passion for Wollombi – the Gateway to the Hunter Valley.
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