Luckily Birch had stumbled upon a name that felt right, because the New York Times bestselling fantasy writer Garth Nix warns that the wrong name "will throw the reader out of the story". "She may have thought, 'I bet he says this to everyone.'" Loading. "She probably wasn't sure if I was telling the truth," Birch laughs. The novelist told Odette within 10 seconds: "It's lovely to meet you - and you're going to be in a novel." "She said her name is 'Odette' and she had a beautiful strong face and a face similar to I may have imagined for my character," Birch told RN's The Book Show. He met the mother of an emerging Aboriginal writer (whose name he funnily enough now can't recall) at a writer's conference. The novel's first draft had a placeholder name for its protagonist until what Birch describes as "a fateful moment". In a fictional rural Australian town in the 60s, Aboriginal matriarch Odette Brown tries to prevent a local policeman from removing her granddaughter Sissy from her care. Birch won the Indigenous writing awards at the Victoria and NSW Premier Literary Awards in 20 respectively.
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