ABOUT MEG
Meg Keneally is a bestselling novelist, editor, journalist, writing teacher and book coach.
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She is the author of three solo novels - Free, The Wreck and Fled (optioned for film).
With her father Tom Keneally, she’s the author of four books in the Monsarrat series - The Soldier's Curse, The Unmourned, The Power Game and The Ink Stain. The fifth, The Valley of the Swells, is on the way.
She had contributed to numerous anthologies, and has co-edited a book of writing about the natural world - Animals Make Us Human.
Meg worked for many years as a news reporter, and her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Australian and the Daily Telegraph, among others.
She has taught writing masterclasses around Australia, and has worked with fiction and non-fiction authors.
Critical Acclaim
Captivating . . . A tragedy of epic proportions . . . The reader can't help feeling implicated as a spectator of unimaginable hardship.
Keneally doesn’t try to explain the tenacity of her heroine, nor should she; Jenny is in a fight for her life and the lives of her children, and there isn’t time, space or safety enough for long meditations on her situation. But while we don’t get a deep look into the protagonist’s interiority, her resilience is as captivating in fictional form as was Bryant’s when she first made headlines more than two centuries ago.
New York Times Book Review