IT WAS a reader’s dream when two of Australia’s most high-profiled contemporary writers took centre stage at Echuca’s library on Wednesday night.
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About 40 people were transfixed on Sally Hepworth and Lisa Ireland as the pair laughed the audience through what makes them the writers they are today.
The free event was thanks to Collins Booksellers who say this won’t be the last time they bring renowned authors to town.
Sally has lived around the world but needed maternity leave to finally take the plunge and write a book.
That produced Love Like the French, which was published in Germany in 2014.
While pregnant with her second child she turned out The Secrets of Midwives, published worldwide in English, as well as in France, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2015.
Sally has continued writing about women’s issues and family ties in The Things We Keep (published February 2016), The Mother’s Promise (March 2017) and The Family Next Door (March 2018).
Today she lives in Melbourne with her husband and three children.
Lisa had a long run as a primary school teacher before turning her hand to writing and is now a fulltime author, writing women’s fiction.
Her novel, Feels Like Home, was an Australian Bestseller and she was ranked one of the Top Ten debut fiction authors in Australia.
Passionate about art, travel and human rights – she is an active supporter of several human rights organisations – Lisa loves to read, run, and drink copious amounts of coffee with friends when she’s not writing or campaigning for human rights.
She can often be found wandering along the beach near her home with her extremely disobedient but loveable dogs, Millie and Lulu.
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