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FORMER Bendigo local turned author and academic Margaret Hickey will finally share her crime thriller novel Cutters End <\/em>at the Bendigo Library on 18 November.<\/p>\n

The book was published by Random Penguin House on 17 August, but opportunities for the author to meet with readers have been limited.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of lockdown and the terrible timing, this is only the second time that I\u2019ll be actually speaking to people about the book, so it kind of is a launch really,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am really excited to come back to Bendigo and see my friends and to come to the terrific Bendigo Library and share Cutters End<\/em> with a Bendigo audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hickey studied in Bendigo and now lives in Beechworth and is a lecturer at La Trobe University.<\/p>\n

A playwright and author for almost 25 years, she published collection of short stories Rural Dreams <\/em>last year, and Cutters End <\/em>is her first full length novel.<\/p>\n

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Cutters End follows an 18-year-old girl from a remote South Australian town as she gets caught up in a murder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI found the short stories difficult to write. They were very literary, published in small literary magazines and I thought \u2018I\u2019m going to write something popular fiction\u2019 rather than literary fiction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The novel is set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End and follows 18-year-old Ingrid Mathers as she hitchhikes Alice Springs and finds herself caught up in a mysterious murder.<\/p>\n

For inspiration, Hickey turned to her own childhood, reminiscing on her own experiences of hitchhiking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always liked crime and I thought back to my days of hitchhiking back when my cousin and I, after school in around 89 and early 90s, used to do a lot of hitchhiking up and down the Stuart Highway,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had some scary experiences, not terrible but we did have some, and those experience inspired me to start the book from the point of two young girls hitchhiking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hickey said she enjoyed the freedom of writing the novel and let the story flow naturally.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike the short stories which I found quite torturous to write, I was really conscious of not planning this book at all,\u201d she said. \u201cIn literary, writers talk about being a pantser or a planner and I definitely fit in the pantser category.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means whenever I would write I\u2019d read the last paragraph I\u2019d written and keep writing from there, so I\u2019d just let it grow very organically. I only really found out who did it not long before the readers would\u2019ve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hickey said she is excited to be able to share her book in public with an audience she knows well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s lovely to meet with readers and people interested in reading and books,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a double delight because I get to see old friends, we\u2019ll go out afterwards and I\u2019m really looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hickey said she has been contracted to write two more novels in the series and is currently \u201cbusily writing\u201d the sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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