Shannon Kelly-White ‘WRITING BAD WOMEN IS FREEING!’

HER FIRST FORAY INTO FICTION RIPS UP THE RULE BOOK

- By Celia Whitley

In order to write her first novel, Shannon Kelly-White happily visited “every little nook and cranny” in her “disturbed little brain”.

Set in the 1930s, Billie King tells the entertaining story of mothers, daughters and one gutsy colonial girl who gets caught up in a quest for revenge from Australia’s last female bushranger.

Sitting down with New Idea, Shannon says that, when she was looking for inspiration, she “kept noticing how much women were missing from history”.

“We all hear stories about bushrangers and outlaws and larger-than-life men, but what about the women? I thought a female bushranger story sounded so epic,” Shannon shares.