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"I came to live on Phillip Island in 1989 after having spent a lifetime of holidays there. A habit of recording thoughts and feelings developed into writing family history (Dear Aunt Emma, published 1992), and this led to publication of my second book, An Unlettered Girl, Her Life on the Gold Fields in 2000, a novelised version of my great grandmother's life.

In 1996 1 became a Volunteer Guide at Churchill Island where the writing muse became engaged by those who had lived there in the past, particularly the women, and how they lived their daily lives.

Churchill island History and Her Story began to take shape in my mind, interrupted for a few months by a commission to write the text for the Churchill Island Visitors' Guide.

Churchill island History and Her Story is my attempt to evoke earlier days and ways, so that later generations may gain some idea of the different way life was lived in simpler times."