Join us for an in conversation with Susannah Begbie and local farmer Tony Ransom and Edgars Books and News' Belinda Harrison about Susannah's book The Deed, succession plans and farming.

Susannah grew up on a sheep farm in NSW. She has worked as a GP from Boggabri to Broome, South Coast to Red Centre and a whole lot of places in between.

In 2006, Susannah started a Graduate Diploma in Professional Writing at Canberra University. She was awarded Editor’s Pick for short story ‘Fly to meet you’ in the UCan’s First anthology, and best written text for children’s book ‘Don’t You Dare!’ in the Get Real project.

‘The Deed’ is Susannah’s first novel. It won the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2022 and is published by Hachette Australia.

About The Deed:

Tom Edwards is dying, and cranky. He's made his peace with the dying part. But he'd bet his property - the whole ten thousand acres of it - that there'd be no wailing at his funeral. His kids wouldn't be able to chop down a tree, let alone build a coffin to bury him in.

Then Tom has an idea...

Christine is furious, David ashen-faced, and Sophie distracted. Only Jenny listens carefully as Vince Barton, of Barton & Sons, reads their father's will. Either they build his coffin - in four days - or they lose their inheritance. All of it.

A perceptive and unforgettable debut novel, The Deed explores the messy, sometimes volatile, complications that only the best and worst of family can bring. Sometimes greed can be good.

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