Deirdre relies on Teddy for company and for help around the property – is she selfish to keep her there?.Did I succeed? Who did you think the Cowgirl really was? In my first novel, I brought The Drifter home – so I wanted to set The Cowgirl free.Why does Deirdre need to see the relics of her childhood again? What will digging up the past bring into the light? And will Teddy find her freedom? She hadn’t realised Deirdre was a woman with secrets – which will soon be brought to the surface as young archaeologist Will Hastings comes to dig up the past. When Deirdre announces that her childhood home was buried on the farm, Teddy is stunned. Teddy is a young woman devoted to her grandmother and her property, except that she yearns for more, and spends her time telling stories and dreaming of a life beyond the farm she is too scared to leave. The Cowgirl is the story of Deirdre and her granddaughter, Teddy, who live a quiet country life filled with work and duty. I wanted The Cowgirl to express the incredible, yet invisible, value of these many lives – and to say thank you. I hope that The Cowgirl is not only a mystery about what happened to Deirdre’s home and family, but also a look at the role of women and the opportunities available to them for so many generations. I wanted to give her her own story, not only because I loved her so much, but because I felt that her life was representative of so many women’s lives, dedicated to everyone and everything but themselves. I grew up with a woman in my hometown who was exactly as fierce in real life as Deirdre is in my novels although she was also kind, loyal and hardworking. The Cowgirl is a return to Windstorm, and Deirdre and Teddy Broderick’s farm. When I wrote my first novel, The Drifter about the town of Windstorm, I knew I’d be back, because I loved writing the character of Deidre so much I wanted to find out she became such a grumpy old woman. Stories that are a love letter back to my country roots
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