Author Talk with Paula Beavan

Join Paula J Beavan in talking about her latest book: ‘Rebel Spirits’!

Paula J Beavan has been an avid reader since childhood, growing up on a small property in the Hunter Valley, where she rode horses, mustered cattle, and listened to the stories of local farriers, cattlemen, and farmers. A serendipitous discovery of family connections to early settler William Harpur of Oswald, along with a link to a transported convict assigned to a property near Singleton, deepened her curiosity about the past and inspires her writing today!

Set against the rugged Australian bush of the 1860s, Rebel Spirits is a story of resilience, loyalty, and the cost of choosing love when survival is on the line! Irish immigrant Ellen Maguire is struggling to hold her family together as their roadside inn, The Harp and Hound, slides toward ruin. With the railway bypassing their village and her father lost in grief, Ellen turns to an illicit solution — distilling poteen from her grandmother’s old remedy book — never imagining where the venture will take her. When injured Englishman Jack Bell stumbles into her life searching for his missing niece, Ellen offers him shelter, unaware that his mission is entwined with her own growing danger.

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