Coming from Cornwall, Elizabeth has lived in Tasmania since 1982, first on a dairy farm and later on an organic smallholding, both on the NW Coast.  Her three children grew up there; for some years Elizabeth also managed a local bookshop.  In 1999, her marriage at an end, she came to live in Hobart and started a tourism business which she ran for ten years.  She has always loved both reading and history, and became much intrigued by Tasmania’s unusual – and largely unknown – story, which after some serious research and study led to A Crying in the Wind being published.  “But history is not very interesting when it is just dry facts – I wanted to tell the story of the ordinary people who were actually living it.” 

Elizabeth continues to live in Hobart, loving her garden and its birds that Sooty the cat is strictly forbidden to chase.  “Tasmania is an extra-ordinary place, loved and hated in equal measure.  I consider it a privilege to live here.  It may be something of a backwater, but the ravishing beauty and peaceful daily life more than make up for it.”