Canberra novelist Sally Thorne's rocket ride

By Natasha Rudra
Updated September 3 2016 - 11:13am, first published August 26 2016 - 11:14pm
Canberra author  Sally Thorne at her home in Gordon. Photo: Melissa Adams
Canberra author Sally Thorne at her home in Gordon. Photo: Melissa Adams

Sally Thorne remembers with shining clarity the moment she realised her life was about to change in a huge way.  "I remember going in to my desk at work [in the public service] and sitting down and just feeling like suddenly an escape hatch had opened in what was a pretty dry, corporate world," she says. "And I spoke to the guy next to me and I just said, 'I was given a book deal.'"

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