BEERWAH writer Joanna Barrett’s Tasmanian memoir has been published by Ginninderra Press, an independent commercial publisher based in Adelaide, which has been in business for more than 25 years.
‘They said we were isolated: my life at Top Farm on Tasmania’s west coast’ tells the story of Joanna’s and husband Peter’s unlikely adventures on a neglected cattle property on the wild west coast in the 1970s. It’s published using Joanna’s nom de plume, Joanna Talberg.
Joanna said she and Peter went to the west coast with a dream of turning Top Farm into a thriving cattle enterprise.
‘But with cattle prices falling, weather gods that decreed more rain than sun, and our savings shrinking, we faced a choice,’ she said.
‘Should we stay and try to survive through the cattle downturn, or should we drive away forever from the farm at the end of the track?’
‘They said we were isolated’ will be launched in Beerwah on Saturday, June 24th, by Lea Parkes, former editor of the Glasshouse Country and Maleny News.
Copies of Joanna’s memoir are available now at Beerwah Newsagency and at Rosetta Books in Maleny.
‘They said we were isolated’ is also available on several websites, including www.ginninderrapress.com.au and www.barnesandnoble.com.
Bookshops are able to order the book, if requested.
Joanna has started a Facebook page for the book called “Tasmania titbits and memoir by Joanna Talberg – They said we were isolated.” She invites everyone who is interested to take a look.
