I was horrified to discover the children had been told their parents were dead, when they were often alive and searching for them. My debut novel (The Oceans Between Us) was inspired when I happened to catch the lunchtime news and heard Gordon Brown apologising to the ex child migrants who’d been sent to Australia decades previously. Tell me what inspired you to write your (debut) novel? Gill lives with her family in West Sussex and teaches English to college students and hosts a creative writing blog. The first three chapters of THE OCEANS BETWEEN US were longlisted for the Mslexia novel award and the first page of her second work in progress has been selected to feature in Mslexia magazine. Her first novel, THE OCEANS BETWEEN US, tells the heart-breaking story of a mother and son separated by war and by continents, fighting their way back to each other. Gill Thompson Gill Thompson is an English lecturer who completed an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University.
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