Karen Viggers
Karen Viggers is a novelist, wildlife and domestic animal veterinarian, and podcaster. She is the author of 5 novels: The Stranding, The Lightkeeper’s Wife, The Grass Castle, The Orchardist’s Daughter and Sidelines. Her work explores contentious issues, such as dying with dignity, displacement of First Peoples, wildlife rescue, kangaroo culling, clear-felling of native forests, and now, modern parenting and junior sport.
Viggers is co-host of the Secrets From the Green Room podcast in which she interviews writers and other book industry colleagues. She lives on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land in Canberra with her ecologist husband. Her books have been translated into several languages and have enjoyed great success in France where she is a bestselling author and has won a literary award. Sidelines is her fifth novel.
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