Stella Budrikis - Author Presentation

Stella Budrikis was born in England but has lived in Western Australia for most of her life. She has worked as a general practitioner, addictions clinic doctor, pastoral carer, and freelance writer. Stella’s first book, Susan: convict’s daughter, soldier’s wife, nobody’s fool, was published in 2017.

Susan Mason was uneducated but streetwise and canny. From colonial Adelaide to the barracks towns of the British Isles, she fought her way through life.  Life often dealt her a poor hand and yet she managed to survive the poverty of her childhood, the indignities of being an army wife and the joys and tragedies of being a mother with her fighting spirit intact.

As Stella Budrikis relates the story of Susan (her great great grandmother) and her family, she reveals not only the complexity of Susan's character, but also what life was like for women on the edges of society in the Victorian era.

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