We are using the one link for all events related to the launch of Fran's new novel - Falling for Water

Just choose the ticket for the event that works for you:

21 Sept 2pm - 4pm in-person at Blythe Heads Hall Heybridge Tasmania
23 Sept 7pm - 8pm online Australia Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
24 Sept 7.30pm - 8.30pm online Newfoundland Canada Time

Falling for Water by Francesca Cairns

“Always remember, child, that you are this water, and this water is you.”

Water speaks to Kayla as if rivers run in her veins. From her first days at her grandmother’s side, Kayla learns to trust this connection and the wisdom it brings. She crosses Australia, helping source and heal the waterways, until the work leaves her exhausted and overwhelmed. Seeking the truth of the dreaming that has always been with her, Kayla

traces the mystery of her gift through her maternal line to the waters of Newfoundland. She must look to where she has always found courage, in the strength of women and the path of her ancestors, to follow her calling.

A mystical, thoughtful meditation on our relationship to nature and how to find strength and hope in a damaged world.

A mystical, thoughtful meditation on our relationship to nature and how to find strength and hope in a damaged world.

Fran has lived and travelled in many remote and rural environments including Central Australia, Tasmanian highlands, and the Canadian Atlantic Province of Newfoundland.

She has worked in Aboriginal child care, then as a flower farmer, photographer, in disabilities theatre, and was Australia's first female grader driver in the 1970s, earning her a spot in the Women’s Museum of Australia.

Francesca Cairns' first novel, Drawing from the Well, was published by Brolga Publishing in 2005 and set in South Australia's outback.

Having raised her two sons on a rural homestead in the Otways, in South Western Victoria, Fran presently resides on a river in North West lutruwita/Tasmania with her soulmate, stewarding 33 acres of natural forest and waterways.