When urban academic Hayley Katzen moves to a remote Australian cattle property to live with her farmer girlfriend, she hopes, at last, to find home.
But this is no happy-ever-after tree change. Lecture halls, law reform and the arts are replaced with castrating calves, shovelling manure, fire-fighting and anti-gas blockades. In a place that attracts people who live by their own rules, Hayley must confront her limitations and preconceptions to forge her own identity.
In this Conversations from Byron podcast, Hayley speaks with long-time friend Sarah Armstrong about learning to love the bush, about the craft of memoir writing, and about all of the things, the histories and experiences, the people and the landscapes, that ultimately lead us home.
