Adrienne Ferreira
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Adrienne Ferreira

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adrienneferreira.net Adrienne Ferreira was born in Sydney in 1975 and grew up in Sandy Beach on the mid north coast of Australia. She went to high school in nearby Woolgoolga with a large Indian Sikh population, originally migrants who came to work the banana plantations covering the surrounding hills and this unique rural landscape and cultural diversity was imprinted on her from a young age. Some of her earliest preoccupations were with an old python living in the roof, picking mulberries in the backyard and studying the habits of flying foxes at her home on the coast. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, she embarked on a working holiday in Europe. It was in the Aeolian Islands of Sicily after a morning spent climbing a volcano and devouring bags of fresh figs when the idea for her novel, Watercolours, struck her - about a boy obsessed with exploring the landscape and personalities of his small town through drawings, and how the interpretations of this particularly sensitive and observant child seem spooky and then threatening to those in the community with something to hide. The idea for Watercolours was born in Italy, but it is very much an Australian story, set in the kind of unique natural environment in which Ferreira grew up. Searching for a physical characteristic for the landscape of her fictional town, she was researching mulberry cultivation when she stumbled upon the forgotten silk-growers of Australia. Her research into this 19th century national experiment in commercial silk, and the community of New Italy, south of Lismore, NSW, lead to the invention of the town of Morus (Latin for mulberry): a place of migrants and dreamers, the proposed future silk capital of Australia turned to boutique mulberry wine production, whose current inhabitants have some tightly woven secrets set to unravel. Watercolours is Ferreira's first novel and took over 10 years to write. She lives on the NSW Central Coast with her husband (writer, producer and actor, Rob Carlton) and their twin boys, who are impressed that their mother once climbed a volcano in Italy.
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