However, the beauty of writing about the girls is that each of them have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. I’m sure that like me, there will be one sister in particular you will most identify with, and a sister you like the least.
We are, after all, the goddesses of multi-tasking! And every day – with one hand guiding my children, and the other a manuscript – I celebrate the fact that my ‘freedom’ to be who I am was won by thousands of generations of remarkable women, perhaps leading right back to The Seven Sisters themselves…
Yet I truly believe that humans – especially women – thrive on this. The world is sadly still not a perfect place, and I doubt it ever will be, because there will always be a new challenge ahead. Whether fighting the sexual and racial prejudices of times gone by, losing their loved ones to the devastation of war or disease, or making a new life on the other side of the world, these women paved the way for us to have the freedom of thought and deed that we enjoy today. The Seven Sisters series unashamedly celebrates the endless search for love, and explores the devastating consequences when it is lost to us.Īs I travel round the world, following in the footsteps of my factual and fictional female characters to research their stories, I am constantly humbled and awed by the tenacity and courage of the generations of women who came before me. However, the definition of ‘feminism’ is equality, not domination, and the women I write about, both in the past and present, accept that they want and need love in their lives, not necessarily in the traditional form of marriage and children. Some say they were the Seven Mothers who seeded our earth – there is no doubt that, in their stories, they were all highly fertile! – and had many children with the various Gods who were fascinated by their strength, beauty and ethereal air of mysticism.Īnd I wanted to celebrate the achievements of women, especially in the past, where so often, their contribution to making our world the place it is today has been overshadowed by the more frequently documented achievements of men.
I was very attracted to the fact that each one of the mythological sisters was, according to their legends, a unique and strong female. When I first had the idea of writing a series of books based on The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, I had no idea where it would lead me.
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