Jane will read from her beachcombing-themed novel “It Began with the Marbles” which was published by Goose River Press in April 2022. Her talk will be accompanied by pictures from her travels in Scotland and England that relate to the book, as well as her Scottish island-hopping adventures in the summer of 2022. A native of Scotland, Jane divides her time between Scotland and MDI. Her fiction writing is inspired by her travels, including the US, Great Britain, Bhutan, and Hawaii.

She has also published three novels as “The Birsay Trilogy”, based on her travels to Orkney in northern Scotland. Jane’s most recent novel, “It Began with the Marbles”, features some of the characters from “The Birsay Trilogy”, but it begins a new series set in Scotland and Maine. The novel was reviewed in the Beach Reads section of “Beachcombing Magazine”, November/December 2022, with the reviewer calling it an “enchanting story” that will inspire sea glass seekers to research the provenance and history of pieces they find.