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Join Stella Prize-winning author Heather Rose as she unveils her powerful new novel, A Great Act of Love, in this special event held over a two-course dinner in The Restaurant at Montalto.
Van Diemen's Land, 1839. A young woman arrives in Hobart, with a young boy in her care. Leasing an old cottage next to an abandoned vineyard, Caroline Douglas must navigate an insular colony of exiles and opportunists to create a new life on this island of extreme seasons and wild beauty. But Caroline is carrying a secret of such magnitude, it has led her to cross the world, and it will take all she is made of to bring it into the light...
In this unmissable edition of Books and Ideas at Montalto, acclaimed author Heather Rose sits down to her latest novel, A Great Act of Love – a spellbinding work of historical fiction set against the backdrop of colonial Tasmania.
Over an intimate two-course dinner, hear from Rose as she discusses how she came to write this enthralling tale of legacy, love and the making of champagne, with host Tracee Hutchison.
Heather Rose is the Australian author of nine novels. Her most recent novel, Bruny, won the 2020 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award and Davitt Award. Her seventh novel, The Museum of Modern Love, won the 2017 Stella Prize. It also won the 2017 Christina Stead Prize and the 2017 Margaret Scott Prize. It has been published internationally and translated into numerous languages. Both The Museum of Modern Love and The Butterfly Man were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. The Butterfly Man won the Davitt Award in 2006, and in 2007 The River Wife won the international Varuna Eleanor Dark Fellowship. Heather has also written for younger readers under the pen-name Angelica Banks with Danielle Woods. The series has been published internationally and shortlisted twice for the Aurealis Awards for best children's fantasy. The memoir Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here was shortlisted for the nonfiction prize in the Indie Book Awards in 2022. Heather lives in Tasmania.
Tracee Hutchison is trailblazing Australian broadcaster, journalist, filmmaker, television producer, author and creative industries leader, with a career spanning 40 years at the highest levels in Australian and international radio and television.
Tracee's career began at the ABC's youth station, TripleJ, and includes high profile roles at ABC TV 7.30 Report, ABC NewsRadio, Radio Australia, iconic community radio station 3RRR.FM and more recently as Music Director and host of FIERCE on Broad Radio. She’s written extensively on politics, the environment and social justice issues as a columnist for The Saturday Age and is renowned for her leadership and advocacy on gender equality, social justice and environmental issues over many decades. Her interview subjects include prime ministers, rock stars, film stars, sports stars, community leaders and social justice champions.
Tracee has served on the Board of 3RRR.FM, Music Victoria and is currently Chair of the peak music environmental organisation, Green Music Australia.
