Author Talk with Fiona McArthur

Join us as Fiona returns to the Library to share her latest book The Featherwood Beekeeper!

Copies of the book will be available to purchase prior to the event or during the event. Contact the Library for additional information.

About the Author:

Drawing from her earlier life as a rural midwife, Fiona McArthur shares her love of working with women, families and health professionals in her books. In her compassionate, pacey fiction, her love of the Australian landscape meshes beautifully with warm, funny, multigenerational characters as she highlights challenges for rural and remote families, and the strength shared between women. Happy endings are a must. Fiona is the author of the non-fiction book Aussie Midwives, and lives on a farm with her husband in northern New South Wales. She was awarded the NSW Excellence in Midwifery Award in 2015 and the Australian Ruby Award for Contemporary Romantic Fiction in 2020.

About the Book:

Set against the rural backdrop of a NSW community still finding its feet after the last two years of flood and fire, The Featherwood Beekeeper is a story about second chances at love, found family and the courage it takes to let people in.

Hives are failing up and down the NSW coast—but not in Featherwood. Government scientist Natasha Yarrington is sent to discover why, and her search leads to off-grid beekeeper Isaac Stevens, whose thriving colonies hide a remarkable secret. For Natasha, he becomes Featherwood’s greatest mystery.

Drawn into the town’s warm heart, Natasha crosses paths with Birdie Vaughn, an eighteen-year-old searching for her long-lost brother, and Molly Rogan, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant, and the kind of woman who holds a community together. As Natasha’s ties to Featherwood deepen, she begins to wonder if she’s uncovered something far more important than the answer to failing bees.