Chatting With Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Karen Viggers! Karen is the award-winning, internationally best-selling author of four novels (Allen&Unwin): The Stranding (2008), The Lightkeeper’s Wife (2011), The Grass Castle (2014) and The Orchardist’s Daughter (2019). Karen is a wildlife veterinarian, biologist and researcher with a PhD in wildlife health, and she has worked with native animals in many remote parts of Australia from the Kimberley to Antarctica – bringing a unique set of perspectives to Australian contemporary literary fiction. Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Slovenian, Romanian, Norwegian, Croatian and Dutch. In 2016, The Lightkeeper’s Wife/La Mémoire des embruns was published to acclaim in France (Les Escales, le Livre de poche 2016), winning the Les Petits Mots des libraires award 2016 for a discovery novel (Roman Decouverte) and short-listed for the Livre de poche Reader’s Choice Award.  Sixteen-year old Mikaela has grown up isolated and home-schooled on an apple