A conversation with bestselling Australian author Nicole Alexander

Covid-19 update. The event is cancelled, but it’s still a good book, and reading is a great thing to do if you are stuck and home!

Orange City Library invites you to join them for a visit by bestselling Australian author Nicole Alexander.

Nicole will sit down for a conversation with Orange City's Libraries erudite Librarian Sean Brady to discuss her compelling new novel, The Cedar Tree.

Spanning two centuries, The Cedar Tree is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a land as richly diverse as the secrets it keeps.

In the spring of 1949, Stella O’Riain flees her home – a sheep property on the barren edge of the Strzelecki Desert. She leaves behind the graves of her husband Joe and her baby daughter.
With no money and limited options, Stella accepts her brother-in-law Harry’s offer to live at the O’Riain cane farm in the Richmond Valley. There she hopes to get answers to the questions that plague her about her marriage. However, Harry refuses to discuss Joe or the family’s secrets, even forbidding her to speak to the owner of the neighbouring property.
Nearly a century earlier in County Tipperary, Irish cousins Brandon and Sean O’Riain also fled their homes – as wanted criminals. By 1867, they are working as cedar-cutters in New South Wales’ lush green Richmond Valley.
But while Brandon embraces the opportunities this new country offers, Sean refuses to let go of the past. And one cousin is about to make a dangerous choice that will have devastating consequences down the generations…

Come along 5.30pm – 7pm on Wednesday 25 March and hear more from this fascinating and successful author. The event will be supported by Collins Booksellers, Orange.

Bookings online via Eventbrite or call 6393 8132