CREATIVE CUTS - Heather Rose in conversation

Outspoken presents Heather Rose in conversation on Monday October 13 at the Maleny Community Centre, 6pm for 6.30pm. 

Heather Rose grew up in Tasmania where she was, by her own description, a wild barefoot girl, born for adventure. It was there that she developed a profound love of nature, but one that, as a result of a tragedy that occurred when she was twelve, propelled her on a journey to explore life’s mysteries, travelling widely in Asia, Europe and the USA, seeking out different ways of being, including becoming initiated into certain ancient rituals.

Returning to Australia she took up a career in advertising, eventually starting her own agency, an enterprise that did so well she was chosen as a Businesswomen of the year.

In the meantime she started writing novels, going on to produce, so far, eight; many internationally published and much awarded. Both Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love are presently being adapted for film. 

Her new novel, A Great Act of Love, begins when a young woman ‘of means’, Caroline Douglas, arrives in Hobart, with a young boy in her care. It is 1839. After leasing an old cottage next to an abandoned vineyard, she discovers that, in order to create a new life, she will have to navigate an insular colony of exiles and opportunists. But Caroline is carrying a secret of great magnitude and it will take all she is made of to bring it into the light. 

Moving from the champagne vineyards of revolutionary France to London and on to early colonial Australia, A Great Act of Love is a spellbinding novel of legacy, passion and reinvention, inspired by true events. At its heart is a family who have champagne in their blood. It is an immensely beautiful and heartrending saga of a father and daughter, and the enduring power of familial love.

Heather will be discussing this new novel, and her other works, with Steven Lang.

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