The Island House (69 page)
Connie stood behind her daughter’s shoulder. It was hard to express what she felt. “Do not fear, child. Your appearance is delightful.” She reached for Ellen’s hand, and mother and daughter gazed at each other in the mirror. And smiled.
“Mother! The bells!” On the far side of Wintermast’s green, the clock in Edwin’s church tower was striking the hour. Soon their guests would arrive.
“We must see that all is in readiness. Immediately! Where is your father . . . ?”
Connie hurried to the door, and Ellen, with one last glance at her surprisingly elegant appearance, ran after her. She was glad they were so happy today. It was not always so.
A writer, director, and producer for more than thirty years, Posie is one of Australia’s pre-eminent television creator/producers.
Variety
Magazine named her as one of “100 Significant Women in Film and Television” in December 2002 for her body of work, the same month and year her first novel,
The Innocent,
was published and the Screen Producers Association of Australia awarded her the honor of inaugural Australian Independent Producer of the Year. Posie used to say (famously, in Australia) that she wrote her first four books on Sundays, while she produced eight seasons of her self-created, much awarded and long-running hit television drama series “McLeods Daughters” (among a number of other projects) during the rest of the week. Commencing in 1999, another of her major television credits was as co-creator (and co-producer for the first two seasons) of the three times Daytime Emmy–nominated “Hi-5.” Selling out her interest in 2008, which enabled Posie to write fulltime, “Hi-5” is still running after fourteen seasons. Also in 2002 Posie became Director of Drama for the Nine Network Australia, and held that position until she resigned in late 2005 to take up a new writing contract with her publishers Simon & Schuster, and to continue producing “McLeods.”
Posie is the lyricist on three bestselling albums of “Songs from the Series” of “McLeods Daughters” and the author of five novels.
The Innocent, The Exiled,
and
The Uncrowned Queen
—the “Anne” trilogy, set during the period of England’s Wars of the Roses—was published internationally to great success between 2002 and 2006. In 2010,
The Dressmaker,
set in Victorian England, was again published internationally to considerable success and acclaim, and in 2012
The Island House
will follow.
A long-standing board member of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Posie is also a board member of Screen Tasmania. And she is delighted to say that she is a proud member of the Huonville Arts and Heritage committee in Southern Tasmania.
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