About Cheryl

Cheryl Adam spent her childhood in rural Australia where her love of storytelling began. Her dramatic excursions into foreign countries where she was evicted, kidnapped, abandoned, made homeless and discriminated against, helped develop her deep empathy for immigrant women. She married in Africa, had five children and returned to Australia after a 17-year absence.

Cheryl became a student again at 46, completing three degrees in visual art as well as being a carer for her husband. Her concern for marginalised women and the environment took her to the Philippines where she taught homeless women how to create useable art from plastic bags, assisting in the development of a cottage industry. This experience inspired her to begin writing and to enrol in a creative writing course at Holmesglen TAFE in Melbourne. Lillian’s Eden was her first book. And her sequel Out of Eden will be published in 2021.

She is a proud grandmother and looks forward to writing more books.