![]() ![]() While both are swimmers, their lives are different and each girl has a greater understanding of her own life while living someone else’s. Thanks to an old timekeeping watch, they somehow swap bodies and timeframes. ![]() Cat Feeney lives in Sydney, 2021, getting up early every morning for squad training, even though she’s not as committed as she should be. Fanny Durack is from the Sydney of 1908 – she lives over a pub with her parents and eight siblings and regularly escapes the chores of skinning rabbits and washing bedlinen by hand to swim instead. ![]() ![]() They spoke of their different approaches – Emily’s organised approach versus Nova’s wing-it ways – and their research trip to Sydney, which involved swimming in Wylie’s Baths.Įlsewhere Girls is the story of two swimmers living in different times. She told us it was a publisher’s dream to have writers of Emily and Nova’s talent approach her with a ‘thing’ they’d written, wondering whether Text would be interested.Įmily and Nova gave us a glimpse into their collaborative writing process with the way they laughed and chatted together. Jane Pearson from Text Publishing introduced the writers. Their book was launched at Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library by Leesa Lambert from The Little Bookroom, with sparkling wine and cupcakes, beautifully decorated with images of the characters. Last week, I went to the book launch for Elsewhere girls, a middle-grade novel by a pair of well-known Melbourne writers, Emily Gale and Nova Weetman. ![]()
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