The Woman on the Mountain is coming down to the coast to go on tour in early September.
The north coast of NSW is familiar territory as I have had sun- and surf-loving family and friends scattered along its length for many decades.
The Pacific Highway used to be a winding single-lane road where you became intimate with the back windows of caravans and the idiosyncratic signs of the businesses in small coastal towns.
Now it increasingly ignores the towns and roars flat chat over 4 lanes or more wherever it can. But I’ll be slowing down and turning off, into the bigger towns at least, to talk at their libraries. Perhaps you live near one of these and can come along and hear me have a rave and do bird calls and try to sum up in 20 minutes what it took me nine months to write?
You get to quiz me afterwards and if you tell me how much you loved the talk or the book I’ll write nice things in your copy of it.
Monday 3 September
Forster 1.30pm
Taree 5.30pm
Tuesday 4 September
Port Macquarie 10 am
Kempsey 2 pm
Wednesday 5 September
Coffs Harbour 2 pm
Thursday 6 September
Grafton 2 pm
Friday 7 September
Lismore 10 am
Monday 10 September
Ballina 10.30 am
Then I’m leaving the coast and heading back to mountain country and down the New England Highway to home.
Tuesday 11 September
Armidale 5.30 pm
Wednesday 12 September
Tamworth 11 am