On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
It was interesting because I went to describe her as Western Australian author, but I don't know why I feel compelled to do that because I don't do that when I describe my Sydney or Melbourne writing friends, but it is interesting.
On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
It's a story of Kathleen O'Connor, who was an Australian, I guess you'd call her an impressionistic artist, who left conservative Perth at the beginning of the 20th century and went to
On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
And it's also the story of Amanda Curtin, this almost detective story of tracing this elusive, mysterious character and her elusive relationships with other people, but also her relationship with Australia.
On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
Some of that comes from tragedy of her childhood where her father, who was a famous Western Australian engineer and town planner, there's beaches and statues named after.
On Caoilinn Hughes' Orchid & the Wasp, Steven Carroll's The Year of the Beast, John Lanchester's The Wall and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result
Yeah, and the tragedy of his tragic passing and the treatment of him by the Australian press and in Kathleen O'Connor's eyes by Australia left this shadow on Kathleen as part of the reason she wanted to go and later in life she had to sort of, with her tail between her legs, come back to Perth.