Katherine Rundell's childhood in Africa inspired many of her stories

In advance of her appearance at Lismore, Katherine Rundell tells Marjorie Brennan how her childhood in Africa has inspired so many of her stories.

PRODIGIOUSLY talented is a description that doesn’t quite seem to do justice to the achievements of Katherine Rundell. She had barely dipped a toe in adulthood herself when she wrote her first novel for children, The Girl Savage. The book, which she wrote when she was 21, drew on her own experience of growing up on a farm in Zimbabwe.