Margaret Hickey in conversation and will feature her new book 'An Ill Wind'
Schedule
Tue Nov 18 2025 at 08:00 am to 09:30 am
UTC+11:00Location
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3350 | Ballarat, VI
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A Small Town Divided – Secrets Are Blown ApartHigh on a hill above the small fictional Victorian town of Carrabeen, 300 wind turbines constantly spin. All except for one, now deadly still with a limp body hanging from one of its huge white blades.
Married Detective Sergeants Belinda Burney and Will Lovell are shocked to discover the dead man is Geordie Pritchard, a wealthy local philanthropist and owner of the wind energy farm. Suicide at first seems the likely explanation, until Geordie’s widow Lucinda insists her husband was murdered – and she has the death threats to prove it.
The controversies surrounding the arrival of the wind farm has ripped the rural town in two. Some welcome the jobs and prosperity it brings, others are enraged by the loss of farming land. So in the eyes of the locals, Pritchard was both saint and sinner. But who in this small community hated him enough to want him dead?
The natural Australian landscape is the centrepiece of all Margaret’s writing, and the focus of her creative writing PhD was on depictions of landscape in Australian literature. She has always been struck by the isolation and danger, as well as the beauty and exhilaration of her local surrounds and this is evident in An Ill Wind as we spend time in the dusty and quiet paddocks of Carrabeen.
In previous books she has depicted the harsh, relentless desert, the secretive, sodden bush, Australia’s ethereal underwater world and the mountainous High Country of North East Victoria where she lives.
Tickets $11 plus bkg fee - ticket also available in the BMI Library.
Find out more: https://ballaratmi.org.au/talks/
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