About the Event
Join us for a fascinating talk with Sasha Wasley, as she discusses her latest novel Snapshots from Home.
Light Lunch served at 12.30pm
Author Talk 1.00pm
Book signing 2.00pm
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About the Book
‘Please send snaps of my dear mother and father, my sisters Sarah and Evelyn, and my bonzer little poddy calf, Zeus.’
It’s 1917, three years into the Great War, when Edie takes up a teaching post in the small Australian town of York.
Mourning the loss of her beloved brother on the Front and evading her father’s plans for a respectable marriage, she’s glad to keep busy teaching at Miss Raison’s School for Girls. After a little persuasion, Edie agrees to take part in a comfort scheme sending photos of home to the troops.
Edie’s new venture throws her into the path of the family secrets, scandals, and class complexities of her new town – and a handsome, exasperating man her father would never approve of. With each new encounter, her world gets bigger and more complex, until Edie’s asked to make choices that could turn her cautious life upside down – and change the very course of history.
Drawn from the true stories of Australians during WWI, this is historical fiction at its best. Charming and heartfelt, Snapshots from Home is perfect for fans of Fiona McIntosh, Joy Rhoades and anyone who loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
About the Author
Sasha Wasley was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. She completed a PhD in feminist literature at Murdoch University in 2006 and went on to work as a copywriter on topics ranging from mine safety to sex therapy.
Sasha’s debut novel was published in 2015, after which she gave up her copywriting business to pursue her fiction writing career.
Sasha is passionate about levelling the playing field for members of the community experiencing disadvantage. She is an ambassador for the Books in Homes Australia charity which provides books of choice for children in disadvantaged circumstances to keep in their home libraries.
Today, she lives and writes in the Perth hills region with her partner and two daughters. A lover of animals, Sasha spends her free time pottering in the garden with her flock of backyard chickens.
Sasha is the author of Spring Clean for the Peach Queen (2021) and A Caravan like a Canary (2022).
