Ep 21: Gracie Flynn may be dead, but she’s not gone + Louise Adler’s Adelaide Writers’ Week
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The highest compliment any reader can pay new crime fiction writer, Joanna Morrison, is “I couldn’t put it down” or “You moved me”. Both epitaphs apply equally to “The Ghost of Gracie Flynn”. It’s a non-linear unravelling of two compelling mysteries; a literary ghost story with a bittersweet twist.
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Louise Adler is a warm and witty conversationalist who shares what drives her in the creation of Australia’s most respected literary festival…and the ones that got away!
Guests
Joanna Morrison, author of “The Ghost of Gracie Flynn”
Louise Adler, the director of Adelaide Writers Week
Our Random Reader is Skye, aged 13
Other books that get a mention:
Joanna mentions “I am, I am, I am; Seventeen Brushes with Death” by Maggie O’Farrell, Helen Garner’s journals, “Taboo” by Kim Scott, “Spare” by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and “Hydra” by Adriane Howell.
Louise mentions numerous authors, many of them attending Adelaide Writers Week, 4-9 March 2023. Some names included Shirley Hazzard, Dervla McTiernan and Simon Armitage. She also referred to “Ravensbruck” by Sarah Helm and “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver.
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