About Susan Rollinson

Susan has worked as a teacher in secondary, further and higher
education, teaching English and philosophy as well as training teachers. Her writing is inspired both by her literary passion and by her strong interest in religion, history and the paranormal. She has lived in rural Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire all her life and has travelled widely abroad. In this debut novel, Susan manages to combine fact with fiction seamlessly and entices the reader to learn more about the past and its effect on our everyday life, its relevance to us all.

Many people ask me why did I write my book? Why is it different? Why should a reader buy it? So I thought I would answer your questions:

“I lived in an interesting old house for a number of years and was intrigued by the cellars which had been closed up a long while before. My book, Voices Past, was inspired by the opening up of the cellars and then my imagination took me to places I couldn’t have expected.
Quite early on the book began to write itself.

I believe it is different because it was inspired by a place in which I have lived together with my fictional account of a village which is woven together and blends real historical events such as the Dissolution of the Monasteries and events in the 1940s with rural life in contemporary England.

As I wrote Voices Past, I became increasingly aware of the way in which the past is always with us and the enormous influence of it on our everyday lives. I think this is something that will appeal to readers.”