The Empty Suitcase
Five blue books have sat beside my desk for more than thirteen years. Filled with notes, bookmarks and scribbled cross-references, they hold thousands of names and stories from another time.
This is the story of how they came into my life, beginning with an empty suitcase and a journey to the Netherlands.
Journeys: Anabaptist Echoes
In 1711, Swiss Anabaptist families were exiled from their homeland and sent towards the Low Countries. Three hundred years later, following their journey led me somewhere unexpected: into their history, into my own ancestry, and eventually to my novel, As the Tree Falls.