Successful career pivot

Best selling author headed to Mount Gambier event

Mount Gambier Library will host popular Australian actress and award-winning author Judy Nunn with the launch of her blockbuster novel Black Sheep on Wednesday, Octoeber 4, at 7pm at Dress Circle, The Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre.

Judy has had a hugely successful stage and television career in Australia, best known for her appearances in Sons and Daughters, Prisoner and Home and Away.

“In the 90s Judy turned her hand to writing and her first three books became instant bestsellers and now, with 18 books to her name and over one million copies sold worldwide, Judy Nunn is one of Australia’s most successful authors,”, Team Leader Library Programs Kristi Books said.

Black Sheep is a historical novel about a prosperous sheepfarming family and the enigmatic young man they let into their lives.

Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determined to be a gun shearer like his father. Now he’s killed twice, changed his name, and is on the run from the law. He had his reasons for bother murders, and he felt no joy in taking life … or did he?

Ben McKinnon, meanwhile, is heir to the vast Glenfinnan sheep property near Gouldburn, New South Wales. He too has a secret life, that if ever revealed, would shatter the privileged lives of his father, Alastair, and his sisters Jenna and Adele.

When fate brings James and Ben together, a powerful friendship is forged, both men gladly becoming the keeper of the other’s secret.

Then Ben insists his new friend come to work a Glenfinnan Station. Has James finally found the family he has always longed for? Or has the McKinnon dynasty just unwittingly adopted a black sheep?

“With a mixture of historical facts and well-drawn characters, Judy Nunn once again brings Australian history vividly to life,” Mrs Brooks said.

This is a free event with supper provided and books available for sale and signing on the night. Contact Mount Gambier Library (08)8721 2540 or book your seat online via the Library’s website.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID HAHN