Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Peggy Frew discussing her latest novel Islands.

Islands is the story of a family; Helen and John, their daughters June and Anna. A family who like any other love and quarrel and are not perfect in the ways that you can only be with loved ones.

And then one night, fifteen year old Anna doesn’t return home and the family’s lives are inexorably defined by that moment forevermore.