Five Australian teenagers try to rewrite the legend and save the life of the 'Lady of Shalott', but instead find themselves rewriting their own lives and destiny.įinding that her heart and her dreaming were still firmly locked into medieval time, Felicity is now writing The Janna Mysteries, set in England in the 1140s at a time of civil war. The Shalott trilogy was inspired by the 'what if' questions arising from the poem, The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, as well as the legend of King Arthur and his knights, and stories from the Mabinogian. Set partly at Sydney's Quarantine Station, with a flashback to the grisly history of the past, there is now a special Ghost Boy tour at the Quarantine Station for schools studying the novel. Her first Y/A novel, a teen romance, was written for 'Dolly Fiction' under the pseudonym 'Anne Holmes', but all her novels thereafter have been published under her own name, beginning with Ghost Boy. An MA in Children's Literature followed, kindling a passion to write and tell stories for children and teenagers. She began writing stories in primary school, but didn't consider this as a serious career path until, at the age of 40, she went back to school to write the Higher School Certificate and then on to university to do a BA Communications degree, majoring in creative writing.

Born in Fort Victoria, Rhodesia,now known as Masvingo, Zimbabwe Felicity immigrated to Australia in 1970 and now considers herself a true-blue Aussie.

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