Matia with Emily Tsokos Purtill

Emily Tsokos Purtill is a Western Australian writer of Greek heritage. Her creative non-fiction, short fiction, flash fiction and poetry has been awarded and published in anthologies and journals in Australia and the United States. Matia is Emily’s debut novel.

Sia is a young Greek woman who has emigrated from Greece to Perth, Western Australia in 1945 for a better life. She carries with her four prophecies and four pieces of protective jewellery, Matia, one for herself, her daughter, her granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. With a dooming prophecy hanging over each woman’s head will their lives unfold as they want or are they chained to the fate that’s been destined for them?

Over four generations and three continents, linking back and forth over 125 years from Greece to Perth to New York and back to Greece, Emily Tsokos Purtill has weaved a story that is utterly captivating and deeply moving.