Katherine Scholes in an Australian best-selling author based in Hobart. She has sold over two million novels globally which have been translated into a number of languages. Many of her novels have been set in Tanzania, Africa. The place of her birth.

Her new novel, set in Tanzania, is called "The Beautiful Mother". It's an exquisitely told tale of one woman's experience of motherhood, what it means to be a mother and . . . what it means to be human.

On the eve of Mother's Day in Australia, join Katherine and I in this wonderfully insightful chat about motherhood, her heritage, inspiration and her character Essie's journey to find the origin of our species.