Holden writer delves into history for new novel
Ken Cleveland
Special to The Landmark
HOLDEN “For as long as I can remember, I’ve been making up stories in my head,” Eileen Charbonneau said. “It’s not something I ever did purposely. It just happened naturally.”
Today, those stories are emerging onto printed pages, first with her novel “Kelegeen.” The story and characters from that historical novel continued their journeys to America in the recently released “Erin’s Children,” set during the 1850s in Worcester.
“I can remember as a young child, looking at pictures in magazines and visualizing stories to go with them. I daydreamed a lot when I was a kid. This sometimes got me into some trouble in school,” Charbonneau said. “However, I now believe it was simply natural for me. I wasn’t purposely goofing off. It was just part of how I’m made.