This month 50 lucky MoM Rewards top earners are going to receive a copy of A Grandmother’s Widsom by Catriona Rowntree and another 50 top earners will receive a copy of ‘Schroder’ by Amity Gaige!
A Grandmother’s Widsom by Catriona Rowntree
A sweet and inspirational memoir, about the special relationship between the star of Getaway and her beloved grandmother.
Catriona Rowntree loves her Nan. She grew up in the same household and it was to this wise, loving woman that the young Catriona took all her worries and joys. Always there was a sympathetic ear and advice worth following. And as Catriona grew up, left home, started her media career, found and lost boyfriends, met her future husband, married and fell pregnant – her Nan’s words of encouragement, warmth and love helped to guide Catriona’s behaviour and choices, and they continue to do so.
In My Nan and Me, Catriona shares her Nan’s homespun wisdom, based on the experiences of a lifetime. Heartfelt and funny with a straight-talking edge, this is a book to treasure.
About the author
‘Australia’s most travelled woman’, that’s the title earned by Catriona Rowntree after more than 18 years at the helm of Australia’s favourite travel show, Getaway, on Channel 9. Catriona began her television career on WonderWorld! and has worked on radio and in print. In addition to her media roles, Catriona is always involved in community work. She is a passionate advocate for Australian wool, Landcare and children’s charities. She is also a very popular public speaker, highly sought after as an MC and the host of various events. When not in an aeroplane, Catriona lives with her husband and two children on their farm in rural Victoria.
‘Schroder’ by Amity Gaige
A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.
Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder -a first generation East German immigrant -adopts a new name and a new persona -Eric Kennedy -in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. Schroder relates the story of Eric’s urgent escape years later through the New England countryside with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amidst a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life in order to understand -and maybe even explain -his behaviour; the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.
About the author
Amity Gaige is the author of O My Darling and The Folded World. Her essays, articles and stories have appeared in various publications including the Yale Review, The Literary Review, Los Angeles Times and O Magazine. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a McDowell Colony Fellowship, and a Baltic Writing Residency Fellowship, and is currently the Visiting Writer at Amherst College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family.
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