Stephen Herrick

I sound like I'm being very negative about the book.

I'm not.

I think it is a really, really great book.

It's just, yeah, I constantly was aware of the Erica being fictional and

Leonard Cohen being a real life person.

Yeah, there was all those books like Under the Tuscan Sun as well, those sorts of things.

And it's startling to learn that Charmian did it 50 years earlier and 50 times better.

Cliff described Hydra as being marooned in summer, which I think is a good description of the book as well.

And at this time in our life, it's probably a good thing to read.

Hi, Kate.

Thanks for telling the world how old I am.

Why do I think of that?

It was a poem I wrote many, many, many, many years ago called Caboolture, but it included the words Gundawindi.

And I now go back to those schools in Goondiwindi and Caboolture regularly because of that poem.

Oh, really?

30 years on.

Yeah, look, it's been terrible.

I had a wonderful year mapped out of touring Queensland and Caboolture, not Goondiwindi this time, and right up to Gladstone and also the north coast of New South Wales and Sydney.

So something like 50 to 70%

School shows and library shows have been either cancelled or postponed for the next three or four months.