I’m Bridie a writer, storyteller and lifelong collector of stories.

I have always carried stories in my head.

Long before I ever thought of myself as a novelist, I was imagining characters, places and lives , stories that stayed with me for years, quietly waiting for their moment.

Eventually, I wrote my first book. It was non-fiction, born from a very real chapter of my own life. For many people who have read it, Ireland became part of that story too.

But my connection with Ireland goes deeper than the pages of that book.

Ireland has been woven into my life for years. It is a place I have returned to, lived in, travelled through and come to think of as more than simply somewhere on a map. There are people, landscapes, memories and stories there that feel strangely familiar even when I can’t always explain why.

And perhaps that is why, when the idea of writing a novel finally became impossible to ignore, my imagination took me there.

The stories that had lived in my head since I was a child were still waiting.

So I followed them.

What started as a novel has become a journey through Ireland, England, India and beyond through family history, old records, forgotten places and the fragments people leave behind.

Bridie’s Letters is where I share that journey as it unfolds: the discoveries, the places, the memories, the research, the unexpected connections and the stories behind the story.

Some of these things may eventually find their way into the novel.

Others may remain part of the journey.

Either way, I’d love you to come along.

Bridie x