Author Sulari Gentill is looking forward to talking about her book A Testament of Character, her work and life as a writer on her visit to Goulburn on September 12.
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She has visited Goulburn several times earlier and has fond memories of the place.
"Goulburn is a beautiful town. My memories are of wide streets and grand architecture, summer heat and bitterly cold winter days, the magnificent Goulburn District Court and the Big Merino," she said.
The award-winning author has a background in the legal profession and has worked in the corporate sector.
"I was haunted by a feeling that there was something more I was supposed to be doing. On a whim, I thought I might write a novel," she said.
Sulari gets her inspiration from a passing comment, a footnote in history, current events, stories that it seems need to be told.
She gets drawn to "underlying humour, a sense of perspective that runs through Australian crime fiction."
Her book A Testament of Character is the tenth Rowland Sinclair Mystery. At the heart of the novel is a love story, or perhaps a number of love stories, and of course a murder.
The action takes place in the US-in Boston, New York, North Carolina, and Manchester By The Sea-where the last will and testament of an old friend places Rowland and his companions in the crossfire between family, lovers, mobsters, moguls, and Boston society.
When Rowland Sinclair receives word of his old friend's death, he sets out immediately for Boston, Massachusetts, to honour Cartwright's last wishes, and to solve his murder. He is met with the outrage and anguish of a family spurned in favour of a missing heir, who promise to fight Rowland in the press as well as the courts.
Artists and gangsters, movie stars and tycoons all gather to the fray as elite society closes in to protect its own, and long-buried secrets rise to the surface.
Rowland Sinclair confronts a world in which insanity is relative, greed is understood, and reputation is power, in which love is dictated and the only people he can trust are an artist, a poet, and the passionate sculptress.
Sulari Gentill will discuss her new book at the town hall from 2pm-3pm on Saturday, September 12.
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