Straight from the heart
Anyone who tells you that the first few months with a newborn is easy is either lying or has a full-time personal assistant and probably a night nanny as well. So when Tasmanian English-language teacher K. M. (Kate) Kruimink says she not only navigated the period after her daughter Edie’s (Edith) birth in 2018 but, in the sleep-deprived hours between night feeds, managed to knock out the first draft of A Treacherous Country, the first response is disbelief and the next is total respect.
If the book had been total rubbish, she would have had a perfect excuse. But, instead, the novel won her this year’s The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35, $20,000 and a publishing contract with Allen
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