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Welcome To Nowhere River by Meg Bignell
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Welcome To Nowhere River

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Narrator Marta Dusseldorp

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Length 12 hours 29 minutes
Language English
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Brimming with heart and humour, this is a delightful novel that celebrates the country people and towns of Australia.


Long past its heyday and deep in drought, the riverside hamlet of Nowhere River is slowly fading into a ghost-town. It's a place populated by those who are beholden to it, those who were born to it and those who took a wrong turn while trying to go somewhere else.

City-born Carra married into Nowhere River, Lucie was brought to it by tragedy, Josie is root-bound and Florence knows nowhere else. All of them, though familiar with every inch of their tiny hometown, are as lost as the place itself.

The town's social cornerstone - St Margery's Ladies' Club - launches a rescue plan that turns everything around and upside down, then shakes it until all sorts of things come floating to the surface. And none of its inhabitants will ever be the same again.

The highly original and heartfelt story of a place where everybody knows everything, but no one really knows anyone at all.

Meg Bignell (Author)
Meg Bignell was a nurse and a weather presenter on the telly before she surrendered to a persistent desire to write. Since then she has been writing almost every day - bits and pieces here and there, either to earn a crust, to get something off her chest or to entertain herself. She has written three short films, mostly because she wanted to do some acting and no one else would cast her. She sings a bit too, occasionally writes and performs cabaret, but is mostly very busy being a mother to three and a wife (to one). She lives with her family on a dairy farm on Tasmania's East Coast.

Marta Dusseldorp (Reader)
Award-winning actress Marta Dusseldorp has worked extensively in theatre, film and television and is one of Australia's most recognised actresses.

She received an AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a TV Drama for ABC's Janet King in which she plays the title role and is also an Associate Producer. She stars in the popular series, A Place to Call Home for Foxtel and in the Jack Irish series opposite Guy Pearce. Her numerous other television credits include the six-part Blackjack telemovies opposite Colin Friels, Devil's Dust, and the award-winning mini-series After the Deluge.

Marta has a wealth of experience on stage including being a member of Sydney Theatre Company's Actor's Company where she received a Helpmann Award for her role in Shakespeare's War of the Roses. Other STC highlights include Victory, The Lost Echo, Serpent's Teeth, Mother Courage, The Crucible and Never Did Me Any Harm (STC/Force Majeure), Malthouse Theatre's Journal of the Plague Year/Ham Funeral, Three Sisters and The Balcony, Company B's international tour of Cloudstreet and Like a Fishbone for the Sydney Theatre Company/Griffin Theatre. Most recently she starred to huge acclaim in Melbourne Theatre Company's A Doll's House: Part 2, Gloria for the Griffin Theatre and Scenes from a Marriage at Queensland Theatre.

Her film credits include Paul Cox's award-winning Innocence, John Curran's Praise, Bruce Beresford's Paradise Road opposite Glenn Close, Francis McDormand and Cate Blanchett, Jonathan Teplitzky's Burning Man and most recently to be released, Ellie & Abbie directed by Monica Zanetti.

Meg Bignell (Author)
Meg Bignell was a nurse and a weather presenter on the telly before she surrendered to a persistent desire to write. Since then she has been writing almost every day - bits and pieces here and there, either to earn a crust, to get something off her chest or to entertain herself. She has written three short films, mostly because she wanted to do some acting and no one else would cast her. She sings a bit too, occasionally writes and performs cabaret, but is mostly very busy being a mother to three and a wife (to one). She lives with her family on a dairy farm on Tasmania's East Coast.

Marta Dusseldorp (Reader)
Award-winning actress Marta Dusseldorp has worked extensively in theatre, film and television and is one of Australia's most recognised actresses.

She received an AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a TV Drama for ABC's Janet King in which she plays the title role and is also an Associate Producer. She stars in the popular series, A Place to Call Home for Foxtel and in the Jack Irish series opposite Guy Pearce. Her numerous other television credits include the six-part Blackjack telemovies opposite Colin Friels, Devil's Dust, and the award-winning mini-series After the Deluge.

Marta has a wealth of experience on stage including being a member of Sydney Theatre Company's Actor's Company where she received a Helpmann Award for her role in Shakespeare's War of the Roses. Other STC highlights include Victory, The Lost Echo, Serpent's Teeth, Mother Courage, The Crucible and Never Did Me Any Harm (STC/Force Majeure), Malthouse Theatre's Journal of the Plague Year/Ham Funeral, Three Sisters and The Balcony, Company B's international tour of Cloudstreet and Like a Fishbone for the Sydney Theatre Company/Griffin Theatre. Most recently she starred to huge acclaim in Melbourne Theatre Company's A Doll's House: Part 2, Gloria for the Griffin Theatre and Scenes from a Marriage at Queensland Theatre.

Her film credits include Paul Cox's award-winning Innocence, John Curran's Praise, Bruce Beresford's Paradise Road opposite Glenn Close, Francis McDormand and Cate Blanchett, Jonathan Teplitzky's Burning Man and most recently to be released, Ellie & Abbie directed by Monica Zanetti.

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