A C Flanagan

The ancient tradition of storytelling is still one of the most powerful means of communication. It allows us all to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes and with this gain a better understanding and tolerance of the people we share this planet with.

A C (Alice) Flanagan is a Brisbane based author and mother of two. Born in Newcastle, NSW she is the middle child of seven. She grew up in an era where imagination was the main source of entertainment. In the 1960’s, playing makeshift games in the streets of the inner city, she and the friends she grew up with, made their own fun. In these streets the art of make believe was cultivated and her passion for storytelling began.

Alice became an author in her early 40s and Raindance was her first novel. Inspired by the ongoing drought and the prospect that the drought may indeed become a permanent thing her story is centred around two mothers who, out of desperation to protect their children, find themselves doing the unthinkable.

Her second novel, Ecstasy, is a teen read set in Sydney Australia and explores the social issues of teenage pressures amidst living in a multicultural society.