Q1. What do you think makes Riverbend so special?

Personable staff, a friendly face, a nice chat, local knowledge and feeling like home.

Q2. Do you have a favourite memory from riverbend?

More and ongoing preference, I love coming in to purchase books for our kindergarten library. It's always a joy.

Q3. How has reading impacted/ influenced your life?

My mother was a teacher librarian and so we grew up surrounded by books and learnt to read early. I used to spend some of my school holidays covering the library books, which in retrospect was quite a dull pastime. But reading has been really integral to many parts of my life, my career, for relaxation, for pleasure, for learning and for cooking.

Q4. What have read recently?

Give unto Others by Donna Leon, The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, plus a large pile of cookbooks!

Q5. What’s your favourite book of all time?

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Q5. What are you most looking forward to reading?

Sally Vicker’s The Gardener and Helen Garner’s How to End a Story.