{"id":42822,"date":"2014-06-04T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T23:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=42822"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:30:39","slug":"exclusive-video-writer-fiona-wood-author-of-wildlife-in-conversation-with-caroline-baum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2014\/06\/04\/exclusive-video-writer-fiona-wood-author-of-wildlife-in-conversation-with-caroline-baum\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Writer Fiona Wood, author of Wildlife, in conversation with Caroline Baum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Fiona Wood, author of Wildlife, in conversation with Caroline Baum\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQ3T-uFAnTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/wildlife-fiona-wood\/prod9781742612317.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42823 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildlife.jpg?w=195\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Wildlife<\/h1>\n<h2>by Fiona Wood<\/h2>\n<p>Life? It&#8217;s simple: be true to yourself.<br \/>\nThe tricky part is finding out exactly who you are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the holidays before the dreaded term at Crowthorne Grammar&#8217;s outdoor education camp two things out of the ordinary happened.<\/p>\n<p>A picture of me was plastered all over a twenty-metre billboard. And I kissed Ben Capaldi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boarding for a term in the wilderness, sixteen-year-old Sibylla expects the gruesome outdoor education program \u2013 but friendship complications, and love that goes wrong? They&#8217;re extra-curricula.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Lou from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/six-impossible-things-fiona-wood\/prod9780330426060.html\"><em>Six Impossible Things<\/em><\/a> \u2013 the reluctant new girl for this term in the great outdoors. Fragile behind an implacable mask, she is grieving a death that occurred almost a year ago. Despite herself, Lou becomes intrigued by the unfolding drama between her housemates Sibylla and Holly, and has to decide whether to end her self-imposed detachment and join the fray.<\/p>\n<p>And as Sibylla confronts a tangle of betrayal, she needs to renegotiate everything she thought she knew about surviving in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>A story about first love, friendship and NOT fitting in.<\/p>\n<p><b>About the Author<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fiona Wood has been writing television for ten years. During that time she has written for<em> Something in the Air<\/em>, <em>Marshall Law<\/em>, <em>Always Greener<\/em>, <em>Life, MDA<\/em>, <em>The Secret Life of Us<\/em>, <em>Home &amp; Away<\/em> and <em>Neighbours<\/em>, the children&#8217;s dramas <em>Sleepover Club<\/em> and <em>Silver Sun<\/em>, and been a story consultant on Dirt Game. She has also worked as a freelance journalist for <em>The Age<\/em>, <em>The Sunday Age<\/em> and an interior design magazine. She lives in Melbourne with her husband, teenage children, and a very bad dog. This is her first novel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/wildlife-fiona-wood\/prod9781742612317.html\"><strong>Grab a copy of <em>Wildlife<\/em> here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildlife by Fiona Wood Life? It&#8217;s simple: be true to yourself. The tricky part is finding out exactly who you are&#8230; &#8220;In the holidays before the dreaded term at Crowthorne Grammar&#8217;s outdoor education camp two things out of the ordinary happened. A picture of me was plastered all over a twenty-metre billboard. And I kissed Ben Capaldi.&#8221; Boarding for a term in the wilderness, sixteen-year-old Sibylla expects the gruesome outdoor education program \u2013 but friendship complications, and love that goes wrong? They&#8217;re extra-curricula. Enter Lou from Six Impossible Things \u2013 the reluctant new girl for this term in the great outdoors. Fragile behind an implacable mask, she is grieving a death that occurred almost a year ago. Despite herself, Lou becomes intrigued by the unfolding drama between her housemates Sibylla and Holly, and has to decide whether to end her self-imposed detachment and join the fray. And as Sibylla confronts a tangle of betrayal, she needs to renegotiate everything she thought she knew about surviving in the wild. A story about first love, friendship and NOT fitting in. About the Author Fiona Wood has been writing television for ten years. 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