Why 1975?
A world in transition
The mid-1970s gives Saoirse a world with changing expectations, shifting opportunities, and very different assumptions about work, independence, friendship, and family than readers encounter today.
Beyond the Pages
Behind the Story
The setting, experience, and ideas that helped shape the Misery Loves Series.
The Military Setting
Grounded in lived experience
Suzanne’s own Air Force experience at Lackland, Sheppard, and Scott Air Force Bases helps ground the military setting in authentic details. The Misery Loves Series, however, is fiction rather than memoir.
At the Heart of the Trilogy
Choices and consequences
The series is about the choices Saoirse makes, the consequences that follow, and what the people who enter her life teach her along the way.
More to Explore
This section will grow
Future additions can include research notes, 1970s details, locations, playlists, photographs of period objects, deleted scenes, and other reader extras without changing the site’s design.