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Launch of Can you Hear the Sea? by Brenda Niall at Readings (VIC)
Brenda Niall

Join Brenda Niall at Readings for the launch of her new book Can You Hear the Sea?. This insightful and moving book will be launched by Kirsty Murray.

In Can You Hear the Sea?, Brenda Niall has turned her biographer’s eye to a personal subject—her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was wary of the newcomer with ideas of her own.

Brenda Niall is one of Australia’s foremost biographers. She is the author of five award-winning biographies, including her acclaimed accounts of the Boyd family. In 2016 she won the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the National Biography Award for MannixShe frequently reviews for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review.

RSVP to nadja.poljo@textpublishing.com.au