It's hard to get a word in edgeways when your interviewing Thomas Keneally

 
6 June 2013

Journalist Susannah Herbert managed only four questions while interviewing loquacious Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler’s Ark, at the 20th Century Theatre in Notting Hill last night.

Keneally spoke about his latest book, Daughters of Mars, about Australian nurses in the First World War, in aid of First Story, the literary charity set up by Katie Waldegrave and William Fiennes. “I’m sorry, I’ve hogged all the questions,” Herbert said after an hour. “But it’s not entirely my fault because Thomas can talk."

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