Living the good life in the Blue Mountains in Australia with her husband, four grown-up children and four grandchildren, Mary Moody's life was full. But she felt she never had a moment alone, so she ran away to live on her own for six glorious months in the rural paradise of southwest France.
The year of her fiftieth birthday, Mary Moody ran away from home, family and work for six months to live in a remote French village. Her book about these experiences, Au Revoir, struck a chord with tens of thousands of readers across Australia. Yet those experiences were to mark a beginning rathe...
Although I have relished the opportunity to spread my wings and explore these other possibilities, writing has won out in the end. Most of my work has been straightforward journalism, from my days as a young reporter to my twenty-five years as a health and gardening writer. However in the past fe...
I am due home at the beginning of October. Within days of returning I will be thrown into the publicity tour for Last Tango. The plan is that David will travel with me for the first week of the tour, starting at the Brisbane Writers’ Festival and then to Sydney where I am booked to speak at a Dym...
When the crops fill the fields and the grapes are swelling on the vine and twilights are long and warm, living outdoors is a delight. From June until September the southwest region reaches its highest population, with summer holidaymakers coming from the UK and other parts of Europe to savour all...