Celebrating International Midwives Day with Fiona McArthur

Celebrating International Midwives Day with Fiona McArthur

The 5th of May is International Midwives Day. I’ve met so many midwives I’d love to write into a wonderful story – and there are many fictional ones I have put in those stories with much delight. Midwives from so many different places from arid outback Australia, to the midwives from the islands off Scotland, … Read more



Inspiration on the Orient Express: Let’s meet Fiona McArthur

Inspiration on the Orient Express: Let’s meet Fiona McArthur

Fiona McArthur sold her first book in 1999 – a short story for Australian Woman’s Weekly about soccer, inspired perhaps by her chaotic life as a mum of five sons. Like a lot of girls from the country she moved to Sydney at seventeen and started her training as a nurse, and later a midwife, … Read more