Jencey's Corner

I write about mature love – sometimes called seasoned romance, or boomer lit - women in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. I set my books in places I’m familiar with and like my readers to feel they’re meeting old friends in them. Growing up in Scotland in house full of adults, I often listened to my aunt tell her story of the man she’d loved and lost. When I began to write fiction, I knew her story was one I had to tell, but for a long time I couldn’t work out the best way to do it. Finally, when writing Broken Threads , a book set in Australia, where I now live, I set upon the idea of introducing a minor character, Bel, who had an aging aunt in Scotland, who had a story to tell. The Good Sister is the tale of what happens when Bel return to visit her terminally ill aunt and reads the memoir the old woman has written. Isobel has always been the ‘good sister’ of the family, and the reader follows her story from the 1940s through to the present day, as she recalls a time when