Author Evening: Kate Llewellyn at Mosman Library

date:	Monday 5 September
time:	7:00pm
venue:	Mosman Library
cost:	$7.70 / $5.50 pensioners & students
bookings:	essential - at Mosman Library

The author of The Waterlily: A Blue Mountains Diary is our guest to discuss her new book Playing With Water, a lyrical memoir that is a celebration of the senses and the seasons.

Kate Llewellyn’s world is one that concentrates on the simple things… the planting of flowers, the moving of a tree, the art of digging the perfect hole. This is a life that endows small things with grace and dignity.

After moving from her much-loved home in the mountains, Kate starts to establish her new garden in a coastal town. Here she also plants roots in her new community and details the small acts of humanity that lead to friendship. In capturing a moment, such as mowing a lawn with a blind man in the moonlight, waiting for the sound of frogs in a backyard pond or watching a lyrebird disappear into the scrub, Playing with Water creates a meditation on nature, on community and on the cycle of life.

With a poet’s touch, Kate transports us so we feel the endless heat of summer; experience the smoky winds and the orange skies of the bushfire season; taste the salt that hangs in the air on the walk to the seapool; and hear the squelch of lifting arum lilies from the mud…