My Spiritual Home

Di Morrissey returns to WA’s Kimberley coast, the scene of some of her finest fiction and a place that still lives in her heart

- Samantha Trenoweth

Fans of Tears of the Moon will be excited to learn Di Morrissey’s 25th novel returns to the Kimberley – perhaps as excited as Di is.

“I have a very good friend who feels the same way about the area as I do,” says Australia’s best loved author. “She told me that, when she first came to Broome, she felt she’d found her spiritual home, and that kind of sums it up. I don’t know whether it’s past lives or something else but there are certain places that just grab you for reasons you don’t fully understand.”

All the central characters in Di’s new novel, The Red Coast, have been captured by the spirit of the Kimberley. “The story of the book, really, is about the division of a town and its people over the future of a place they all love,” she explains.