Former host of Channel 7's Sunrise, award-winning journalist Melissa Doyle will appear in conversation with Catriona Rowntree, popular TV presenter and host of TV's Getaway for 26 years.
When the world stopped turning in 2020, award-winning journalist Melissa Doyle had already been thrown off course by life. She’d just turned fifty, her eldest child had left home to study overseas and her twenty-five-year-long career as a popular presenter at Channel 7 had come to an end.
In this moving new book, Melissa has revisited many of the survivors she met during her many years of reporting from the front lines of triumph and tragedy, only to be struck once more by their hard-won wisdom and their ability to find meaning in their experiences. Having faced the worst that life could throw at them, from childhood trauma to a freak accident to betrayal of the cruellest kind, they now explain how hope can prevail and we can all, as one remarkable little boy put it, find our ‘fifteen seconds of brave’.
Melissa will appear in-conversation with local TV personality and presenter Catriona Rowntree, host of Channel 9 Getaway travel program for the past 26 years, in what promises to be a truly fascinating and inspiring conversation about Melissa’s book, Fifteen Seconds of Brave.
Tickets are $20pp, $10pp for Geelong Regional Library Corporation members.