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SERIES ONE: MIND SPA

Living Recklessly

Marele Day in conversation with Susan Johnson

In the first episode of our ‘Mind Spa’ podcast series, Marele Day and Susan Johnson discuss Living Recklessly.
In her youth, amidst the throes of a reckless grief, aspiring Australian writer Marele Day was caught up in a shipwreck adventure and forged an unlikely bond with an international fugitive travelling under a pseudonym. For the next 30 years they corresponded before reuniting, both older and wiser, in France.

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Marele Day

Marele Day is an award-winning author of novels including the bestselling Lambs of God. Her latest book, Reckless, is a memoir.

Susan Johnson

Novelist Susan Johnson has turned to memoir with Aphrodite’s Breath, which exposes the struggles and joys of moving to a Greek island with her 85-year-old mother, Barbara, without a word of Greek.



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