SMSA (Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts)
Just like her grandmother, who was the inspiration behind the story for The Shanghai Wife, Emma Harcourt left her hometown of Sydney to explore the world, settling in London for 10 years where she trained and worked as a journalist for The Financial Times Group and the BBC. Emma returned to Australia when her son was a toddler, as a single mother in need of the support of her family and the sunshine for her son. She picked up her career with News Limited and the SBS before remarrying and having her two beautiful daughters, whose arrival gave Emma the chance to break from work and try her hand at writing. Emma is currently working on her second novel.
Join Emma Harcourt, author of The Shanghai Wife, in conversation with Meg Keneally.
Forbidden friendship, political conspiracy and incendiary passion draw Australian woman Annie Brand deep into the glamour and turmoil of 1920s Shanghai. But this world is far more complex and dangerous than the curious Annie understands and, unknowingly, she becomes caught in a web of intrigue and conspiracy as well as a passionate forbidden love affair she could not have predicted: one with far–reaching consequences…’