Accessing the Tools Within, with Anna Downes
Author and Actor, Anna Downes, joins Pamela Cook on the Convo Couch today for an extended interview about her much talked about debut novel "The Safe Place." Anna opens up about her path to publication and goes into how her acting career has been a huge advantage to her writing process.
Superbly tense and mesmerising, The Safe Place is a deft examination of the lengths we’ll go to project and protect the façade of a perfect life and was largely written when author Anna Downes was in the grips of post-natal depression following the birth of her second child. With all her existential fears bubbling to the surface, Anna began writing as a way to have some semblance of control. She wrote and wrote and, reliving her previous career as an actor, began playing all the parts of the characters she had created. The result is one of the most tense and compelling debut novels ever, and The Safe Place was subject to a frenetic auction between Australian and international publishers in 2019.
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