About the Author
Author of Before We Were Free, a historical novel of Henry Kable, Susannah Holmes and the first years of colonial New South Wales.
J S Daley is the author of Before We Were Free, a historical novel based on the recorded lives of Henry Kable and Susannah Holmes of the First Fleet.
The novel grew from public records, family history and the gaps between what was written down and what people may have carried privately.
J S Daley wrote Before We Were Free to tell the story of Henry Kable, Susannah Holmes and the family they fought to keep together.
The work is presented as historical fiction, with recorded events treated carefully and private moments shaped as story.
Read the novel J S Daley wrote about Henry Kable, Susannah Holmes and their family in early colonial New South Wales.