Nadia Wheatley will be in conversation with Marion Halligan on her new book, Her Mother’s Daughter, her most personal work yet. It is the deeply moving story about Nadia’s brave and independent mother, Nina Watkin, who died when Nadia was nine years old. As a child in the 1950s, Nadia was caught in the crossfire between an independent woman and a controlling man. Was she her mother’s daughter, or her father’s creature?

From the highs of Nina’s fulfilling and exciting life as an army nurse and aid worker to the despair of her lonely marriage and untimely death, Her Mother’s Daughter is a multi-layered memoir that provides a portrait of a patriarchal marriage in the 1950s, a lively and fascinating social history of the times and an investigation into the bewildering processes of memory itself.