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Tiny details
Minutiae… Small pieces of information can fascinate. They don’t usually answer the big questions but they work together in magical ways to bring the past to life. An individual is placed in a more detailed setting and their world is populated with real objects, against a background of colours and sounds. Even now, for most […]
Choices, choices…
One of the most difficult aspects of writing the book was deciding what information to include and what to leave out. Small facts about someone’s life, the minutiae of their world, can seem fascinating to one person and read like boring detail to another. Many of the gaps in Georgiana’s life were found by locking […]
Another review in the ‘West Australian’ newspaper
A lovely review by Writing WA in today’s West Australian newspaper. “Bernice Barry’s biography not only brings Molloy’s life and times alive for readers but also shares her years of research.” You can read it in full in The West Australian.
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