From the bestselling author of The Nurses’ War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who wrote the radio plays that held a nation captive. For readers of Lessons in Chemistry. Martha Berry is fifty-years old, a spinster, and one of an army of… Read more

I’m so excited to reveal the cover for my new novel, A Woman’s Work, which is being published in April 2023. It’s set in 1956 and is about two women who enter the Australian Women’s Weekly cookery competition… The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women’s Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of… Read more