‘Who is your greatest literary influence?’ It was at the launch of my novel Garnet at the Cobargo RSL Hall in March. It’s one of those basic questions you expect as a writer and, for me, the answer was easy. Her prose, her humility, her humanity, her powers of observation. The stuff she notices. The…
Category: Garnet
Simple but extraordinary
I was having lunch with Heather O’Connor at the Sundeck in Bermagui recently when a woman approached our table. Heather smiled and said to me, ‘Do you know Kathryn? Lois Irwin’s daughter. She’s visiting from California.’ I did – I remembered her from her father’s funeral. ‘Mum’s just finished your book,’ Kathryn said to me….

