Her home is situated next to a large pond where the royal birds, the peacocks, roam.
These exquisite birds share their domain with cute commoners, the ducks, and others of royal lineage like themselves.  Grey herons, for instance, emerge from the sky like phantoms, to swallow frogs or fish before leaving in a hurry, like the white rabbit in Alice.  The rabbit may drop his glove, but the heron always swallows his frog before tucking his long legs under him and gliding into the blue.

On the days when the summer wind blows harsh and wild, the peacocks stand a while on Catherine’s verandah to catch their breath and dignity before resuming their journey.
“I’ve watched the peacocks struggle against the south easter and thought sadly how these beautiful birds can so easily lose their dignity and be blown off course. My thoughts have then wandered to the many beautiful and talented women who lose their dignity because of harsh behaviour and words blowing through the intimate relationships of their lives,” says Catherine.  “So I wrote The Fly Dancer, a beautiful book to make women feel beautiful again, and regain their core and find their destiny.”
And what could be more beautiful (and paradoxical!) than an art nouveau book about abuse.
Abuse is an ancient social disorder and it would seem, its here to stay.  Therefore Catherine wrote in synergy with this.  She wrote this as a timeless book, avoiding modern words and technology.  There are no laptops, cellphones or iPods in The Fly Dancer and the vocabulary is pure vintage.  However, in keeping with her writing style of adding a quirky thought or word, she did scatter a few modern words into The Fly Dancer.
“As The Fly Dancer will shortly be available in libraries, my hope is that, should it be slid off the e-shelf by someone needing to read it fifty years from now, that reader will still find it relevant.”
As a writer Catherine takes her readers through laughter, outrage, shock, tenderness, learning and self discovery.  Mostly she attempts to point the reader of The Fly Dancer toward a scintillating and colourful new world, enhanced with joy.  It is her hope that the reader will live life in all the colours!
Readers of The Fly Dancer love the appropriate metaphors, paradoxes, examples and shared experiences, some of which are scary, while others create true affiliation.
Catherine’s The Fly Dancer leaves the reader feeling emotionally awakened, justified ... and at peace.