Autor/-in: Barbara McCarthy

Barbara wrote her memoir, her first book, during the COVID lockdowns when she was seventy-six. It marked the beginning of something deeply meaningful for her. Since then, she has published four more books and ghostwritten another for an elderly man who cannot read or write. As a child, Barbara travelled widely with her RAF family, and that early sense of movement, change, wonder, and curiosity has stayed with her throughout her life. She once imagined becoming a travel writer, but instead she discovered something even closer to her heart: a creative imagination and a love of writing in many different forms. She feels she still has stories to tell and believes many older people do too. That is why she volunteers her time to help them write their life stories, because every life holds something precious and deserves to be remembered. For balance and quiet pleasure, she also enjoys teaching and playing Mahjong. Barbara now lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, after spending a nomadic year searching for a place that truly felt like home. That journey, with all its uncertainty and hope, has deeply shaped her latest book and led her to a peaceful, settled chapter of her life.