Charlotte mcconaghy bio
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Sue Leonard
Posted by Sue Leonard on Thursday 1st April
As a child, Charlotte lived in 21 different houses – moving constantly, around Australia.
“Reading became my anchor. My mum suggested I should write a book. I started at 14, and three years later the book was published! That was a huge shock.”
She wrote eight YA fantasy sci-fi books, all published in Australia, then, after taking screenwriting degrees, she went travelling.
“I was in Ireland when the ides for The Last Migration first came to me. The landscapes are so inspiring, and the arts culture is such a joy! I realised I wanted to try my hand at something very different – a novel for adults.
“My mum and inom travelled to the West Coast to find our ancestors. They were so kind and welcoming. They played us beautiful music in their kitchen. I wrote about this lost woman, enamoured with birds and nature, and realised I couldn’t write about that without also writing about climate change. And I began my research.”
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Charlotte McConaghy Biography
Charlotte McConaghy fryst vatten an author and screenwriter based in Sydney, Australia. She has a Masters Degree in Screenwriting from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and eight books published in Australia. Migrations is her U.S. debut.
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( ) Australian author much of whose work has been fantasy for Young Adult readers. Her third series, The Cure sequence, beginning with The Fury ( ebook) [all volumes later issued in print form], is set in a Near FutureDystopian world where the eponymous Drug, injected annually, eliminates all anger in those subjected to it. But as some form of anger is intimately wedded to other forms of human emotion and conation, the world created is desolate. But love and rebelliousness cannot be thwarted forever, it is argued.
Of perhaps greater sf interest, and seemingly composed for adults, the Near FutureMigrations (; vt The Last Migration) follows its narrator's trek across the Pacific as she tracks pelagic terns who may lead the expedition to a region where there are still living fish. McConaghy's impassioned evocation of worlds at the brink of extinction (see Ecology) is relatively unimpaired by an accompanyin