Fiction Archives - Merryn Williams

THE TRIPLETS – AN OUTSIDER’S VIEW

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There is a black and white photograph of the Maynard triplets, which I took in the garden…

A short story inspired by Chalet School characters

‘Are you sure you can manage, Hilda?’

Madge Russell looked anxiously at the tall, slender woman, with the few threads of grey in her bright brown hair, who stood…

A short story by Merryn Williams

The Abbess

A short story inspired by Chalet School characters

I woke up as the young male nurse was fiddling with my tube and the first thing I saw was a large figure 7 on the wall opposite. That was what started me thinking; had I been here…

A short story by Merryn Williams

Next of Kin

The death of an officer in the First World War raises troubling questions for his descendants. A woman in intensive care realises that her husband wants to get rid of her. An innocent young man in the 1930s is hanged. Two incompatible people spend Christmas together. A rising young author publishes some thrilling poems about a string of women – but at least one of them is not happy.

Published in 2025 by Culture Matters

‘One of the more seamless transitions from Austen’s uncompleted novel; this completion is particularly gratifying’
The Republic of Pemberley, Australia
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The Watsons by Jane Austen, completed by Merryn Williams

The Watsons

Jane Austen left The Watsons unfinished in the early nineteenth century. This completion by Merryn Williams develops the surviving chapters into a full narrative, following Emma Watson as she returns to her family and must navigate limited prospects, social pressures, and questions of marriage in a small provincial world.

This is a semi-serious sequel to a famous series of school stories. I’m afraid it upset some people, but that was not the intention. I was just imagining what might happen to these fictional…

novel by Merryn Williams

The Chalet Girls Grow Up

A book that updates the stories of the Chalet School girls into a world of sex, drugs and illegitimate babies bringing characters into the present day, with references to Vietnam, Soweto, Greenham Common and the Falklands war.