Guest
Stella Neale
Stella Neale was born on remote Palmerston in the Cook Islands in 1958 where she’s returned to live and from where she spoke to me for this podcast. She’s directly descended from William Marsters who founded a dynasty on Palmerston in the 19th century. Although administratively part of the Cooks, that island is owned in perpetuity by William’s descendants. Stella’s mother, Sarah Marsters first met Tom Neale in 1942 when she arrived on Rarotonga from Palmerston. The couple married in 1956, two years after Tom’s return from his first stay on Suwarrow. Stella trained and worked as a nurse and is now retired, but has found a new pleasure in writing and has begun sharing some of her work on her Facebook page.