Guest host Meredith Jaffé chats to fiction author Emilia Hart about her debut release, Weyward. Weaving together the stories of three women across five centuries, Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world. Meredith chats to Emelia about the writing of the novel, developing the themes of misogyny and female power, writing during lockdown, the power of landscape in her writing and being a graduate of the Curtis Brown Creative three month online novel writing course. Emelia is a British Australian author. Born in Sydney, she studied English literature and Law at the University of New South Wales before working as a lawyer in Sydney and in London, Weyward was highly commended in the 2021 Caledonia Novel Award and her short fiction has been published in Australia and the UK. She currently lives in London. Meredith Jaffé is the author of four novels for adults— The Tricky Art of Forgiveness (2022), The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison (2021), The Making of Christina (2017) and The Fence (2016.) Her bestselling novel, The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison, was voted in the 2021 Booktopia Favourite Australian Book Award Top 50 and the 2022 Better Reading Top 100. She also writes for children and is a regular guest host on Writes4Women. Grab a cuppa and join Meredith and Emilia on The Convo Couch. SHOW NOTES: Writes4Women www.writes4women.com Facebook: click here Instagram: click here Twitter: click here W4W Patreon https://www.writes4women.com/support-us-on-patreon Emilia Hart Twitter: click here Instagram: click here Meredith Jaffé Website : click here Facebook: click here Instagram: click here Pamela Cook www.pamelacook.com.au Facebook: click here Twitter: click here Instagram: click here Turn Up the Tension online course: click here This episode produced by Pamela Cook for Writes4Women on unceded Dharawal land. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/writes4women?fan_landing=trueSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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