Live Book Event: Caroline Overington, Author of The Cuckoo’s Cry

Live Book Event: Caroline Overington, Author of The Cuckoo’s Cry

Bestselling author Caroline Overington will be joining us LIVE to discuss her latest novel The Cuckoo’s Cry. Caroline will also be taking questions.

Caroline Overington is a bestselling Australian author and an award-winning journalist. She has written eleven books, including the top-ten bestseller The One Who Got Away, and Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing in 2015. She has profiled many of the world’s most famous women, including Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton, and has twice won the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism. She has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalistic Excellence and the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature. Caroline is currently Associate Editor at The Australian and is based in Sydney.

Join Caroline for this free LIVE event:

Wednesday, 20th October 2021 at 8PM – 8:30PM AEST… on the Better Reading Facebook page and Better Reading Youtube channel.

Buy a copy of The Cuckoo’s Cry here.

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                      Publisher details

                      The Cuckoo's Cry
                      Author
                      Caroline Overington
                      Publisher
                      HarperCollins
                      Genre
                      Fiction
                      Released
                      29 September, 2021
                      ISBN
                      9781460760499

                      Synopsis

                      On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to be his granddaughter. She needs help and has nowhere else to go.He welcomes her in, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay?As Don and the girl start to forge a bond, Don's adult daughter has her own suspicions about what the newcomer is after. But, unable to travel, how can she protect Don and discover if the girl really is who she claims to be?
                      Caroline Overington
                      About the author

                      Caroline Overington

                      Caroline Overington is a bestselling Australian author and an award-winning journalist. She has previously written for the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian and the Australian Women’s Weekly, and has twice won Australia’s prestigious journalism award, The Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism. She has written eleven books, including Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing in 2015 and I Came To Say Goodbye, shortlisted for both Book of the Year, and Fiction Book of the Year, at the 2012 Australian Book Industry Awards.  She has profiled some of the world’s most famous women including Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey, and lives in Sydney with her family, a blue dog and a lizard.

                      Books by Caroline Overington

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