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Learn more'Skilfully written, with moments of laugh-out-loud humour, Lovebirds both warmed and broke my heart in perfect measure.' Joanna Nell
In their youth, lovebirds Elizabeth and Ray had to fight to be together. Their future was full of promise and, blessed with children and careers, their happiness complete. But a twist of fate changed their lives forever.
Now in her sixties, Elizabeth is desperately lonely. She rarely sees her two adult sons and her closest friend is a talkative budgie. But when her grandson, Zach, gets into trouble with the police, she decides to take him on a road trip to find his grandfather, her lost love Ray, in the hope of mending their broken family.
Two less compatible travelling companions would be hard to find, as they set off on an unlikely adventure into the wilds of the northern NSW hinterland. What they discover along the way, about Ray and each other, has the power to transform them all. In trying to save Zach, Elizabeth might just save herself.
Warm, witty and wise, Lovebirds is an astute and uplifting novel about the power of love and family.
Amanda Hampson (Author)
Amanda Hampson grew up in rural New Zealand. She has lived in London and Sydney, and now lives in Melbourne. Writing professionally for more than 20 years, she is the author of The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road, The French Perfumer, The Yellow Villa, Sixty Summers, Lovebirds, and the bestselling cosy crime novel The Tea Ladies. Her forthcoming novel is The Cryptic Clue.
Nikki Shiels (Reader)
Nikki Shiels graduated from the VCA in 2009, where she won the Richard Pratt Memorial Scholarship for an Outstanding Actor. Her career in theatre spans leading roles with all of Australia's major theatre companies. Most recently, Nikki played the lead role of Judy in Home, I'm Darling for MTC. Other productions for MTC include The Cherry Orchard, True Minds, Top Girls, and Don Parties On. STC productions include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Cheery Soul, and Three Sisters.
For Belvoir Street, Nikki took the role of Rita They Divided the Sky, for which she won Best Female Actor at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards, Jenny in The Suger House, Angelica Bianca in The Rover, and Viola in Twelfth Night.
For Malthouse Theatre, Nikki has twice toured internationally in Matthew Lutton's acclaimed production of Picnic at Hanging Rock, including seasons in London and Edinburgh. Also for Malthouse, she appeared in Night on Bald Mountain, The Dragon and Elizabeth - Almost by Chance a Woman.
Onscreen, Nikki has appeared in Rush, House Husbands, Childhood's End, Neighbours and Bloom, and was cast alongside Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis in The Eye of the Storm.
Amanda Hampson (Author)
Amanda Hampson grew up in rural New Zealand. She has lived in London and Sydney, and now lives in Melbourne. Writing professionally for more than 20 years, she is the author of The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road, The French Perfumer, The Yellow Villa, Sixty Summers, Lovebirds, and the bestselling cosy crime novel The Tea Ladies. Her forthcoming novel is The Cryptic Clue.
Nikki Shiels (Reader)
Nikki Shiels graduated from the VCA in 2009, where she won the Richard Pratt Memorial Scholarship for an Outstanding Actor. Her career in theatre spans leading roles with all of Australia's major theatre companies. Most recently, Nikki played the lead role of Judy in Home, I'm Darling for MTC. Other productions for MTC include The Cherry Orchard, True Minds, Top Girls, and Don Parties On. STC productions include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Cheery Soul, and Three Sisters.
For Belvoir Street, Nikki took the role of Rita They Divided the Sky, for which she won Best Female Actor at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards, Jenny in The Suger House, Angelica Bianca in The Rover, and Viola in Twelfth Night.
For Malthouse Theatre, Nikki has twice toured internationally in Matthew Lutton's acclaimed production of Picnic at Hanging Rock, including seasons in London and Edinburgh. Also for Malthouse, she appeared in Night on Bald Mountain, The Dragon and Elizabeth - Almost by Chance a Woman.
Onscreen, Nikki has appeared in Rush, House Husbands, Childhood's End, Neighbours and Bloom, and was cast alongside Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis in The Eye of the Storm.