#AusChat

I have waited so long for this #AusChat with Kate Mildenhall, author of The Mother Fault, Skylarking, and half of The First Time Podcast team. We talked about technical difficulties (eek), how to get puff quotes, the ups and downs of parenting in a dystopia. Kate's voice is so familiar as I've listened to every single episode of The First Time, yet I was unprepared for how enigmatic and hilarious she would be in person! Well, over zoom.
The Mother Fault is OUT TODAY! Go buy it now
You can find Kate here: katemildenhall...
More about The Mother Fault:
You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you
Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him - especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe’.
But suddenly Ben can’t be tracked. And Mim is questioned, made to surrender her passport and threatened with the unthinkable - her two children being taken into care at the notorious BestLife.
Cornered, Mim risks everything to go on the run to find her husband - and a part of herself, long gone, that is brave enough to tackle the journey ahead.
From the stark backroads of the Australian outback to a terrifying sea voyage, Mim is forced to shuck off who she was - mother, daughter, wife, sister - and become the woman she needs to be to save her family and herself.