Posie, Physics, Fairies and Folklore

I recently had the opportunity to talk to Posie Graeme-Evans about her new book ‘Wild Wood’ and her continuing career in TV production.

Posie is based in Tasmania these days, but even before she settled here Posie had a long standing connection to the state with her dad living in Launceston and meeting Posie’s mum in England when he was a fighter pilot in the war flying spitfires. In the 60’s the family returned to Tasmania for a third time.

Posie is a very visual person and has been involved in creating TV shows like McLeod’s Daughters. In the program, which was made in South Australia, Posie explored the myth of the country landscape. Posie says Tasmania, with its landscape and light, lends itself to comparisons with Scotland.

Additionally, she mentioned how her understanding of the natural world and its portrayal on screen has been greatly enhanced by insights from experts in various fields, including physics homework help https://domyhomework123.com/physics to ensure that the scientific aspects are accurate in her productions.

No longer is there is any tyranny of distance in working from Australia or for that matter Tasmania. Posie believes if you are adapt with technology, which she is, you can work from anywhere.

In demonstrating this Posie is returning to her other career as a TV creator and is working on a New Zealand TV series, a co-production with the Huon Valley, all from her home in Tasmania. She is able to participate in development and creative meetings without leaving her home.

Posie is positive and delighted with Tasmania’s artistic agility such as Screen Tasmania’s success with The Kettering Incident and the spill over effect for the island state from the presence of MONA.

Posie’s second book about Scotland – The Island House was the first – Wild Wood explores a legend of a different family of McLeods.

The novel deals with amnesia, reincarnation, family drama, fairy tale and folklore with ‘a liberal sprinkling of quantum physics. Posie sets the action of her novel around a modern day fairy tale, Britain during the lead up to the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Diana. Into this exuberant, celebratory London comes our protagonist, a young Australian girl looking for her birth mother. History interweaves with the supernatural to tell a parallel story of a fairy queen and her marriage to a nobleman.

The two worlds converge when our protagonist falls in the street while navigating her way through the throngs gathering in London for the royal wedding. A case of amnesia leaves her with incredible abilities of astounding artistic skills in her sketches of ancient castles.

Posie has employed her considerable research skills in investigating the clan McLeod’s legend of the ‘fairy flag’ and ‘fairy woman’. The story tells of a chief who fell in love with a fairy woman all the while knowing that love could not prevail between a human and immortal, however, they marry if only for a little while, long enough to have a son. The time comes for the fairy lady to return to her family however, she does so on the proviso her son is never allowed to cry. It happens that at a grand occasion the child does cry and his mother from her fairy home rushes back to comfort her child enfolding him in a fairy flag. The clan McLeod believe the special fabric to be protective and it exists today in a castle on the island of Skye.

Posie’s new novel is intriguing and thoughtful, a mixture of modern and ancient history, of legend and fairy tale and most of all the story of a young woman who finds that both the ancient and modern past impact on her present and future.

Wild Wood is out now published by Simon and Schuster.