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Chrissie Bellbrae

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Chrissie Bellbrae’s first stories were crafted playing families with dressmaking patterns at her mother’s feet as the sewing machine hummed in the background. While working in education, she undertook a Fiona McIntosh Masterclass and completed her first historical fiction manuscript. She hasn’t stopped writing since.
Tempted to explore the rabbit holes within her own family history— Chrissie’s narratives transport readers from past to present, and create more significantly interesting lives for her ancestors than they possibly ever lived.
Chrissie acknowledges she lives and writes by salt water on the coast of Wadawurrung Country.
The Florentine Quilt is her debut novel, inspired by a life-long interest in art, textiles and tales her grandmoth
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The Florentine Quilt

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The Romanov Secret

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Glamour, intrigue, and two women who will gamble their lives to survive…

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The Florentine Quilt by Chrissie Bellbrae
"I loved this novel. Written by a local author, it follows three women from the past, who come together in a modern day character, through Theodora, as she goes to Italy to help mend a medieval quilt, after her grandmother dies. She is blessed with so" Read more of this review »
The Florentine Quilt by Chrissie Bellbrae
"Chrissie thank you so very much! An absolutely amazing, wonderful and heartwarming story. I fell in love with each of the three beautiful women and their lives and stories that you created. I read it in less than two days; I couldn’t stop turning the" Read more of this review »
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