Like one of the characters in her rural romances, Maya Linnell is at a crossroad in her life.
Maya Linnell’s gaze is as clear as the view to the ocean from the studio where she writes from home at Narrawong on Victoria’s far south-western coast. “With the vision of hindsight, perhaps I should have invented 10 sisters in the McIntyre family,” she says. “But I only made four and now their stories are told.”
For the past five years, Maya has lived and breathed her fictional family’s every move, from her debut novel, Wildflower Ridge, to her latest offering on their lives,…