March 2016 – Gretchen Shirm

Piece on Arashiyama in The Saturday Paper

I’d been to beautiful Kyoto before, but it really was a treat to revisit the same locations in Autumn – the colour palette is utterly stunning. You can read my travel piece published in The Saturday Paper, here.

Review of Elizabeth Strout’s ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’

I reviewed Elizabeth Strout’s superb short novel My Name is Lucy Barton for the Sydney Morning Herald, here. Olive Kitteridge is one of my all time favourite books and what I love about Strout is that she is such a devastatingly honest writer; every time I read her I remember why I write.