Catherine Meyrick writes historical fiction with a touch of romance. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, but grew up in Ballarat, a large city in regional Victoria about 115 kilometres from Melbourne. History is everywhere in Ballarat with its Victorian buildings and wide streets. It was one of the first places where gold was discovered in Australia, in the early 1850s. Catherine has a Master of Arts in history, is a retired librarian and an obsessive genealogist.
She has written two novels set in Elizabethan England, Forsaking All Other and The Bridled Tongue. Her more recent books are Australian stories. Cold Blows the Wind is set in Hobart Town, Tasmania between 1878 and 1885 and is based on a period in the lives of her great-great grandparents, both the children of transported convicts. Catherine is a descendant, through her father, of nine men and women transported to Van Diemen’s Land.
Her latest novel, And the Women Watch and Wait, is set in Coburg, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, between 1914 and 1919 and depicts the struggles of ordinary women left to watch and wait and pray during the four long years that their men were away fighting a war on the other side of the world.
