Building a dream
Good seasons. Bad droughts. Farm accidents. Good succession planning. Bad inheritances. Community as solid as bush baking. Small towns riddled with gossip. In her time as a rural journalist, Maya Linnell has seen and reported on the impact of them all. And Maya has used this experience to great effect in Wildflower Ridge, her debut novel, which shines a light on a family of four country women struggling to come to terms with the decisions they have made in life.
Maya lives with her husband, Jason, and children, Charlie, aged 11, Amelia, nine, and Elizabeth, seven, in the south-west Victorian seaside settlement of Narrawong at the end of the Great Ocean Road. In 2008, they moved to Portland for
