Mary's Oak Partner-Desk

Most days, I sit at Mary’s desk to write her story. Poetic, isn’t it?

Thanks to the thoughtfulness of Rita Woollam’s children in the summer of 2019, I was gifted Mary’s antique oak partner desk. It had been willed to their mother and treasured by the family since Mary’s death in 1977. After their mother’s death and before the sale of the family’s house in the summer of 2019, they were sorting through everything and came across the desk.

Knowing I was writing Mary Loretto’s story, they offered it to me. It ‘s a two-person desk and I get goosebumps thinking she is there with me as I write my book.

My office’s centrepiece, Mary’s oak desk. This is the refurbished one-hundred-year-old desk at which I write my book.

Mary Loretto Flynn

circa 1973