With the release of The Red Queen, the writer brings to a close three decades of her young adult fantasy series while hinting at ‘plenty of doors back in’
For a long time, all I knew of Isobelle Carmody was the postage stamp-sized photo on the back covers of her long-running dystopian fantasy series, the Obernewtyn Chronicles.
I envisioned her as slightly gothic, other-worldly, with a dreamy gaze and a lofty air. But when we meet in a Sydney cafe – that unruly dark hair and Mona Lisa smile now in the flesh and sitting by a table of empty coffee cups – the Brisbane-based writer proves open, engaging and a fast talker; hardly the misty-eyed mystic you’d assume was responsible for a post-apocalyptic world of telepathic teenagers and talking animals.
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