Barbara Gurney
Barbara Gurney
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I guess they liked my art!
Entered the Canning Show (November 2023) as an experience - boy! what a total surprise to be awarded ...
1st: Ink Drawing / Water Colour / Pastel / Acrylic
2nd: pencil drawing
Champion Drawing Exhibit
Champion Painting Exhibit
Most points in Painting & Drawing
Best Exhibit in Painting & Drawing
Go to: Barb's Paintings for more
I'd like to be Katherine, thought seven-year-old Kate as she slumped over the rickety wooden box substituting for a desk. It sounds like a good name for a lady. A lady who has servants and a great big palace.
As "Just Kate" did her homework, she wished she could be Katherine, Rebecca or maybe Katherine Suzanna.
"Just Kate"! How horrible. After a cold meat sandwich and a glass of milk, eaten alone, she went to bed and dreamed of staircases with gold steps, long dresses, and people calling her Miss Katherine.
- Chapter One (excerpt), "Diary of Lies"
It’s no lie
There is a new novel
and there's going to be a party
Launching Diary of Lies in July
Diary of Lies
Book Launch Party
Sunday 28th July 2024 1.30-3.30pm
Lyall Richardson Hall
Agonis, Albany Highway, Gosnells
You are invited to the book launch party of Barbara Gurney's latest novel, "Diary of Lies", presented by Dragonfly Publishing. Barbara Gurney is a local author, and a permanent fixture in the Gosnells writing scene. Come celebrate with Barbara and friends as she unveils the diary of Kate Maxwell, a woman who colours outside of the lines to achieve her desires.
Follow in Kate's footsteps and live the lie you've been dreaming of by dressing as your alter-ego! Come as a pirate, a pauper, a princess - anything you can imagine for a party!
Wear a bogan beanie or a fabulous fascinator - because it's a PARTY
Light refreshments of tea, coffee, and biscuits will be served.
Bookings are preferred for catering purposes
and open to the public on the 21st of June 2024.
via the City of Gosnells website.
Asha-Lee has been blessed with “The Gift” but refuses to acknowledge it.
Growing up in a house with chanting and incense burning, and her mother, Lalita, declaring everyone needs to ‘cleanse their spirit’, Asha-lee turned from being a girl wanting to appease her mother to Asha, a young woman wanting just to be ‘normal’.
Asha rents a flat in an old house on Redhill Corner and instantly falls for its once-elegant charm, determined to make it her home. She finds an old carboard box in her flat containing paraphernalia from years gone by and feels compelled to learn more about their vague connection to the old house, something she hopes the caretaker, Mr Cantronelli, can help uncover.
When Asha meets a young woman and her baby at a nearby bus stop, she learns Jocelyn and her husband, Oscar, have recently moved to the area and are struggling to make ends meet. And despite resistance to her psychic abilities, Asha is drawn into a mysterious love story centred around the place she now calls home.
What extraordinary secrets will this house reveal to Asha, if only she’d let it?
By learning to embrace her gift, can Asha figure out what happened to the young family in the house on Redhill corner and in doing so, finally accept who she really is?
Published by Dragonfly Publishing 2022