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Join Susan Wyndham in conversation with Nicole Abadee as they discuss Elizabeth Harrower: The woman in the watch tower.
Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded novels of the twentieth century. Then she abruptly stopped writing in the 1970s and became one of the most puzzling mysteries of Australian literature. Why didn’t she continue? Harrower gave evasive answers to friends and interviewers, and only since her death in 2020 has a deeper search been possible.
In this definitive biography, renowned journalist and writer Susan Wyndham grapples with the elusive Harrower. She immerses us in the author’s tumultuous family, her complex friendships with Patrick White, Christina Stead, Kylie Tennant and Shirley Hazzard, and her timeless probing of the human spirit in five remarkable novels.
Drawing on time spent with Harrower, revealing analysis of her fiction and new research, Wyndham unmasks a literary legend.
About the Author and Interviewer:
SUSAN WYNDHAM is a writer, journalist and former literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. She is the author of a new literary biography, Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower, published in October.
NICOLE ABADEE has worked in the book industry for many years after her previous career as a barrister. She writes about books for Good Weekend, and is also a regular contributor to their much loved Two of Us column. She appears regularly as a facilitator at writers' festivals and literary events. She also has a popular podcast, Books, Books, Books in which she interviews top Australian and international writers about their latest books. Nicole is also a director of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, 2024 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
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