Sydney Avey

Author Bio:

Sydney Avey writes about dynamic women in changing times. She is the author of three historical fiction novels, The Sheep Walker’s Daughter, The Lyre and the Lambs, and The Trials of Nellie Belle.
Avey’s novels feature unconventional women, improper on the surface but moral and ethical at their core. She writes with a touch of romance and mystery, and her stories encourage women to move from difficult situations to the place where they long to be.

A native Californian, Avey’s writing celebrates the historic restless spirit that draws people to the West and the hope that sustains them in all types of hardships. She is a member of the Sonora Writer’s Group, Christian Authors Network, and Women Writing the West. She and her husband divide their time between the Sierra foothills near Yosemite, CA and the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.

The Trials of Nellie Belle

When her parents marry off Kansas-born Nellie Belle to the ranch foreman, she never questions that motherhood will follow. But at the dawn of the progressive era, Nellie seizes an opportunity to move west and start a new life. Yearning to achieve a sense of self-worth, Nellie leaves behind her husband…

The Lyre and the Lambs

A feast of family can be a plate load of problems! It’s the Sixties. Modernity and tradition clash when two newlywed couples set up house together. Dee and her daughter Valerie move with their husbands into a modern glass house Valerie built in a proudly rural Los Altos, California, neighborhood.…

The Sheep Walker's Daughter

Does it really matter where you come from? In 1953, a war widow’s difficult mother dies before revealing the identity of her daughter’s father and his cultural heritage. As Dee sorts through what little her mother left, she unearths puzzling clues that raise more questions. Why did Leora send money…

The Lyre and the Lambs

Literary fiction for Women. A feast of family can be a plate load of problems! It's the Sixties. Modernity and tradition clash as two newlywed couples set up house together. Dee and her daughter Valerie move with their husbands into a modern glass house Valerie built in a proudly rural Los Altos, California,…

The Sheep Walker's Daughter

A Korean War widow's difficult mother dies before revealing the identity of her daughter's father and his cultural heritage. As Dee sorts through what little her mother left, she unearths puzzling clues that raise more questions: Why did Leora send money every month to the Basque Relief Agency? Why…