Margaret Tanner at My Place
On this mild winter Sunday, I'm delighted to welcome award winning author Margaret Tanner to My Place. Margaret Tanner is an award winning multi-published Australian author. She loves delving into the pages of history as she carries out research for her historical romance novels, and prides herself on being historically correct. No book is too old or tattered for her to trawl through, no museum too dusty. Many of her novels have been inspired by true events, with one being written around the hardships and triumphs of her pioneering ancestors in frontier Australia. She once spent a couple of hours in an old goal cell so she could feel the chilling cold and fear. She has also visited the 1 st World War battlefields and cemeteries of France as she researched her novel, Wild Oats. My Place: Grave of Unknown Australian Soldier Some of the scenes in Wild Oats are set on the Somme battlefields of France in 1916. In the town of Albert the troops saw a churc...