Author: Elizabeth Lancaster

Growing up, I used to think funerals were exotic things that other people’s families had — like a holiday house — something just a bit out of our reach. My family didn’t ‘do’ funerals. We didn’t even ‘do’ death. As for any talk of an afterlife, well, don’t even go there. When I was seven Mum’s father died. He lived in a country town far from Sydney, so we rarely saw him. My brothers and I were not told of his passing, but I overheard a phone call between Mum and her brother. I could only hear her end of the call. She was worked up, almost shouting...

Okay, I’m outing myself – when I was young, I was a little in love with Billy Joel. Even after I’d moved on, his early stuff could always transport me. Just a few bars from Piano Man, Italian Restaurant, She’s always a Woman and I’m back there at a particular time and place, filled with a sense of endless possibility. I hadn’t thought about Billy Joel in quite a while. Then in February...

Sometimes lessons in parenting can sneak up un us and in this case, arrived for me just in the nick of time. I'd been invited to a lunch where I was surprised to run into a classmate from primary school.                     

It was during Covid that a brand-new set of twin girls burst into our lives. There is no history of twins on either side of the family, so none was more surprised than my daughter and son-in-law.

What’s the link between the woollen jacket I bought in Madrid on our recent holiday, and The Fire and the Rose by Robyn Cadwallader, longlisted for the 2023 Ara Historical…

Q: What do Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, and I have in common? A: We both like dogs that talk.

LOCAL AUTHOR SHOCKED!!! Here’s what happened next… Sydney author, Elizabeth Lancaster, expressed utter dismay that she could still be drawn in by clickbait headlines.

As a follow-up to my Local Author Shocked story, I wanted to share a conversation I had with a friend who was a television reporter in New York City some…