A Big House against a dark background with a leaf-covered driveway
Head and shoulder of a Black woman in period dress appearing to look down at a WWI battlefield. Behind her is a musical score of Loch Lomond
Cover of White Feathers. A young woman is kneeling while a man hides his head in her lap. Her hand releases a feather into the air.

Photo by John Minehane

About Susan

Susan has published three novels (and a novella!) the first of which was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2015. She has also had short fiction published in a variety of magazines from the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine to Nature. While she has written primarily historical fiction, her latest novel, The Planter’s Daughter, is a contemporary crime novel – but with connections to the Irish Civil War.

Susan is a software developer and member of the Green Party since 2017. She lives by the sea with her family in County Cork, Ireland.

Testimonials

Liz Maguire

White Feathers was so intense and addictive that my tea went cold and unnoticed.

Margaret Madden

This book has a bit of everything…but most of all it has soul. Good, old-fashioned soul.

Cauvery Madhavan

Read Lucia’s War and love it as I have..an absolute triumph.