From Retirement to Authorship

Welcome to the website of author Gwen Wilson, aka blogger Garrulous Gwendoline The Reluctant Retiree…

With a few twists and turns along the way, life after forced retirement chose to reinvent me as an author.

Explore this website to learn more about me, my memoir I Belong to No One, and my debut historical novel, Louisa.

Or simply enjoy my blog posts, an eclectic mix of exhilarating travel adventures and random philosophical musings.

  • Hi everyone, If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve always been a bit of a “Reluctant Retiree“- mostly because I can’t seem to stop getting involved in one project or another! And if you are new to my blog – welcome. How fabulous to have you along. I invite you to read on…

  • There is so much going on in my life that my blog has been neglected. It is not that I don’t think of what I’d like to write. It is just I haven’t worked out how my brain can type the page without any intervention from me. I’m not sure if I have previously mentioned…

  • 2025 is the Centenary Year for Society of Women Writers NSW of whom I have been a member for a mere eight years. Celebrations culminated with a lunch in the NSW Parliament House. There is much to tell of that day. Too much for one blog post, so I will treat this first as a…