So please welcome Janet Gover and help her celebrate the release of her new book, Bring Me Sunshine!
It’s lovely to be here on Kate’s blog – Kate and I met years
ago through the RNA – and we share, among so many other things, a penchant for
changing our hair colour.
I am totally in awe of Kate’s amazing work – 59 books. Wow!
I’ve got a way to go to catch her - I’ve just launched my 4th novel,
and the fifth will be out in March.
Mostly my books are set in Australia – because that’s where
I grew up. But I’ve just had the most enormous fun writing a book set even
further south… What’s further south than Australia? You guessed it –
Antarctica.
A chance comment from a friend about a holiday trip planted
a small seed in the back of my head which grew into Bring Me Sunshine.
I really wanted to take a trip to Antarctica. The tax man
would let me deduct it as a business expense, wouldn’t he? Well, maybe not.
Unfortunately my budget didn’t stretch quite that far. It did however stretch
to the Arctic.
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| I love research! |
I’m from outback Queensland – I attended school in 40 degree
temperatures – and there was no air conditioning in my small country town. I am
fascinated by snow and ice.
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| I have never been so cold in my life |
I had such a lot of fun writing the book. It’s about loss
and loneliness and the healing power of love. It’s about a girl who brings
sunshine back into the life of a man who has been hurting for far too long. And
a man who would go to the end of the earth, almost literally, for the women he
loves.
And – it’s got penguins in it. It’s even got penguins on the cover!
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| Adore the penguins - holding hands or, rather, flippers! |
And everyone loves a book with penguins on the cover –
right?
