Guest host Meredith Jaffé chats to novelist Gina Perry about the publication of her debut novel My Father the Whale.

Factual writer by day, novelist by night, Gina is an award-winning author, science historian, and former psychologist whose feature articles, columns, essays and short stories have been published in newspapers and magazines, including The Age, The Australian Cosmos, and New Scientist.

Gina is the author of two books of nonfiction, the acclaimed Behind the Shock Machine, and The Lost Boys. Her co-production of the ABC Radio National Documentary Beyond the Shock Machine won the Silver World Medal for a history documentary in the 2009 New York Festival Radio awards. She was runner up for the Brag University of New South Wales Prize for Science Writing in 2013, and her work has been anthologised in best Australian Science writing.

My Father the Whale, is her first novel and it was shortlisted for the 2021 Harper Collins Banjo Prize. It's a heartwarming tale about yearning, belonging, and finding oneself. In this episode, in addition to exploring the world of the novel, Meredith chats to Gina about the differences between writing no-fiction and fiction, her writing process and path to publication.

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