The website of Cheryl Hingley,
also published as historical novelist Cheryl Sawyer

Dear Readers,
Welcome, and greetings! It’s a pleasure to present my books to you. I’m the author of six historical novels published under my maiden name, Cheryl Sawyer. Use the menu above to see more about them.

My novels have been released in English, German, Spanish, Czech and Russian, and have mainly been positioned as historical romances. This was a strategy chosen by my original publishers in Australia and the USA, and under their aegis I’m grateful to have found readers in so many markets.

My seventh novel will have another imprint, being of a somewhat different kind, since it contains the drama of two real, famous characters. I finished it at the close of 2007, so I can’t let you know the publishing house yet, but it will be released under my married name, Cheryl Hingley. My earlier novels have all been about strong characters who fall in love while their world is changing. THE PROPAGATION OF FIRE is about strong characters who fall in love while trying to change their world …

It tells the story of the gifted, passionate Marquise du Châtelet, woman of the Enlightenment, and her lover, the impossibly brilliant Voltaire. He once wrote of her:

I never lived until the day you came
to pierce my soul with your celestial flame:
that day when, all consumed by you,
I let the whole world vanish too.

Theirs is one of the most extraordinary love affairs and intellectual partnerships in human memory. THE PROPAGATION OF FIRE reveals the inside story of their turbulent liaison and is, to my knowledge, the first novel ever written about the Marquise du Châtelet, in any language. Just click the image on the right to see more about her story. I look forward to sharing it with you.

With very best wishes,
Happy reading,
Cheryl