Spanning four continents and one hundred years, Shelley Davidow traces her family’s emotional immigrant journey in Whisperings in the Blood.
Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights

Presented by Brisbane Airport Corporation
Shelley Davidow’s Whisperings in the Blood
Rebecca Jessen
Rebecca Jessen lives in Toowoomba; she is the award-winning author of Gap (UQP, 2014). Rebecca is the winner of the 2015 QLD Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Her writing has been published in Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, Cordite and more. She is currently working on a memoir collection.

Shelley Davidow
Shelley Davidow grew up in South Africa. The award-winning author of 40 books published on four continents, she writes across genres. She has lived and worked in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the USA and Australia, her fifth (and final) continent. She lives on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with her husband and son.