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 blogsite turned website to learn more about my early background in my memoir I Belong to No One, or where life finds me now, with the recent release of my debut historical novel, Louisa.
Or simply enjoy my other blog posts, an eclectic mix of exhilarating travel adventures in Australia, or Abroad, mixed with random Writerly Things and Stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere.
One day, I may write the sequel to my memoir. A ‘Self-Help’ book explaining how to transform a life that looked hopeless into one so full of vibrant activity there is never a spare minute in the day. The problem is that in all the years in between I was too busy putting one foot in front of the other to keep a diary, so the second-best option is my blog, first begun in 2013. Perhaps that is more revealing than any book could ever be…
For now, though, I’ll stick with dreaming of broad horizons. Who knows where that will lead me?
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In my younger days, when the postman called twice a day, I had pen-pals. Over time, through those eagerly awaited letters, we correspondents would get to know each other, and every once in a while, discover we had much in common. It’s been a bit like that with fellow blogger and author Luanne Castle, long…
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I’m very grateful to fellow author and blogger, Luanne Castle, for her 5-star review of Louisa, an Historical Novel. You can read it, and the comments, on Luanne’s site here: Review of Louisa, a Powerful Historical Novel about Being Born a Woman | Luanne Castle: Poetry and Other Words (and cats!) And below I have…