Event Description

Hear local author Annie de Monchaux discuss her novel, Audrey’s Gone AWOL, a funny and beautifully observed story about losing yourself, finding yourself, and discovering joy. Annie de Monchaux has a two-book deal with Ultimo Press, you’ll find out about her writing and publishing journey.

Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she’s feeling invisible to everyone, even herself, so she flees to her aunt’s home in rural France. She finds solace in the charms of the countryside, the company of her aged aunt and a cast of eccentric Bretons. Soon Audrey discovers going AWOL might do more than save her marriage, it might just change her life.

Annie's previous lives include ex-nurse, ex-mural artist, ex-script writer in Hollywood & London. Author of Cray Tales a non-fiction anthology of lobster fishing stories, which was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Award.

When : 6:00PM - 7:30PM Thursday 21 November 2024

Contact : 0894113800

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Cray Tales has been reprinted

$35 AUD per copy

Order :- acdemonchaux@gmail.com
FREE delivery within the Fremantle area.
Otherwise Post and Package $11.30 AUD
Also available for purchase or loan from Geraldton Library

Write until you are proud

Represented by Sarah McKenzie
Published by Ultimo Press

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Audrey’s Gone AWOL
was launched in April 2024.
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Annie’s Bio

Annie was living in France until the C word hit and now, she’s a writer based in West Australia. Her non-fiction Cray Tales was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Literary Award and became the basis of a documentary. She’s had short stories published in anthologies and written feature articles for a variety of newspapers….. more

Cray Tales

Cray Tales, published in 1998, is a book offering a colourful account of the Western Australian Cray Fishing Industry.
Cray Tales gives a largely unrecorded West Australian sub-culture the opportunity to be seen and heard. The fishermen and their families’ tales are bawdy, tragic, tender and whether the reader likes history, surfing, drama or a good belly laugh there is something for everyone. It’s about exclusive lobster fishers whose livelihoods are bound into the ecology of the sea and who take the dangerous, isolated and bizarre for granted. They’re driven by a hunting instinct, technology shunts, money sculpts but nature prevails and the resulting human condition is unique, pioneering, skilled and naive. Read More

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