Birds, Light & Weather

Why Puffins?

Puffins are strange little miracles: bright-billed, cliff-built, absurdly brave. In An Improbability of Puffins, they are also witnesses. Their absence tells the island something has gone wrong. Their return means the work of repair has begun.

Field Notes

A Lighthouse Is Never Just a Building

A lighthouse is a promise made in weather. In this novel, the tower is also a record: of women, boats, routes, names and losses that official paper tried to make tidy.

Scilly & Folklore

The Appeal of Wrong Lights

Every coast has stories of false lights. In An Improbability of Puffins, wrong light becomes a way of asking what happens when history, grief and geography refuse to stay in their proper columns.

Writing  & Publication 

Writing Sisters: Ellie, Karensa and Beryan

This is a lighthouse novel, but the emotional engine is sisterhood: the sister who left, the sister who stayed, and the girl with a camera who refuses to let either of them lie.

Field Notes

Public Record, Private Grief

Probate files, council minutes, archive tapes, radio broadcasts and old logs run through the book because records are never neutral. They can preserve truth. They can also erase it.