One of the unexpected joys of publishing Bounty has been discovering how differently it resonates with each person. One reader connects with the friendship, another with living alongside illness, someone else with that intuitive bond between a dog and its owner. Once a book leaves your hands, it begins a new life as part of someone else’s story…

It’s finally here! Bounty is officially out in the world and I’m excited to be speaking about it at my first Sydney author event at Gordon Library on Tuesday June 16 at 6.30 pm. It’s free (including a glass of wine!). In a recent interview with Hornsby Magazine, I was asked whether I intended to write any more books – a question I should have anticipated, but which somehow caught me off guard. Did I?

Meet Bounty who stormed into my life at a time when I was struggling with multiple sclerosis. This stocky agent of change is the unlikely star of my forthcoming memoir. But what I really want to talk about is the thorny issue of writing about real people. After all, who owns a story?