Hippy Days, Arabian Nights: From life in the bush to love on the Nile

The funny, moving and compelling memoir of a woman whose extraordinary life will never be summarised by the words ‘could have’, ‘might have’, or ‘should have’. Part One: Hippy Days tells Katherine’s experience of life in a hippy community that sprang up in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales as part of the counterculture movement. Part Two: Arabian Nights begins with Katherine’s invitation from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture to participate in an International Artists’ Symposium, and so begins her next fateful and totally unplanned foray into the unknown: falling head over heels in love with an Egyptian journalist 27 years her junior - at first sight. Her intimate depiction of an Egyptian family and the fresh, unschooled perspective on this culture is at once engrossing and informative.