Author In-Conversation: Amanda Curtin

Take a journey to Paris with Award-Winning Amanda Curtin as we turn the pages of her latest book Six Days. ABOUT THE BOOK: Daniel, an expatriate Australian who has lived in Paris for more than forty years, has made a mess of his life and is trying to atone, to become the ‘good man’ his friend Marcelline believes him to be. But the quotidian world has been tipped out of balance and Daniel makes an error of judgment that places at risk everything he values. Set in the Latin Quarter of Paris over six days in the winter of 2012, Daniel’s story is woven through with interconnecting vignettes that reach back to war and occupation, the revolutionary sixties, riots in a Catalan town in the south of France, a grassroots movement to make visible the invisible homeless. The personal stitched into, and inseparable from, the political. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amanda Curtin is the author of novels Elemental and The Sinkings; short story collection Inherited; and a work of narrative non-fiction, Kathleen O’Connor of Paris. She has also been a freelance book editor for more than 30 years, and she occasionally works as a mentor and workshop presenter. She lives in suburban Perth, Western Australia—traditional lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation—and works in a backyard studio among magpies, doves and old trees.