Author Gillian Polack at My Place
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Today, I've the pleasure of hosting author and historian, Australian Gillian Polack , who tells us a bit about Canberra and her own workplace. Handing over to Gillian... I'm an Australian writer and historian, and my second novel, Ms Cellophane, has just been released. I live in Canberra, and people have been telling me for years, "You can't write a book about a place like Canberra." They have also been saying, "No-one wants to read about women over forty. I regarded this as a challenge and so, of course, I wrote a novel about all these things. The place is important to the novel: not just the city of Canberra (which is a wonderful home - I came for a year 20+ years ago and never quite got around to leaving) but also the house that I invented for my characters. For me, the place one lives and works is terribly important. I couldn't give you pictures of Elizabeth's place, but I can give you pictures of my workspace, where I create all my noe...