Cheryl Burman Follow

Cheryl’s first books, her Guardians of the Forest trilogy, were inspired by the people's fight to save England's public forests from being sold to the highest bidder. She planned a sequel, half wrote a prequel (maybe to finish one day), and was then side-tracked into historical fiction when she co-authored a book about Elizabeth Scott, the first woman to be hanged in Melbourne, Australia. A tragic tale and not yet published. But the experience set her on the path to writing 'Keepers'. Also set in Australia, and also historical, the story weaves little snippets of family lore into a fictional love story. Her current project came about when she learned of a woman accused of being a witch, in 1906, in the part of the UK where she lives. But that's where the similarity to truth ends in this piece of magical realism.