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Episode 124

124: The untold story of bestselling rural author Fleur McDonald

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Fleur McDonald is one of Australia's best selling rural authors and many of us know her for her gripping crime novels inspired by life on the land. But she's never shared her own story quite like this. Fleur is an incredible woman who raised two children with disabilities on a remote station in Western Australia. She also left an incredibly toxic marriage and went on to start an amazing organisation supporting those experiencing domestic violence. Fleur was told many times that her writing was a silly hobby and something to be done only on a Sunday afternoon after all the house work was done. Well who's laughing now? This is her story.

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