Leone Healy book launch

Leone Healy was born in historic Carcoar, central Western New South Wales, in 1937 and her childhood was spent on an isolated farm. She went onto become a nurse. The birth of her fourth child, who is deaf, transformed the quiet country mouse into a snarling tiger, who fought for equal opportunities for the education of deaf children, and became politically active. She became the first woman elected to Orange City Council, saved parkland from housing development, and has a park named after her. In retirement, she wrote UP! to foster understanding of deafness, winning the best self-published Australian Book in 2002. Her new book A Country Childhood will be launched by Frances Press, CSU Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood. A Country Childhood details Leone's life growing up and her life as a nurse, mother, social scientist, public servant and advocate for deaf children. The book is 'an emblematic Australian story about convict ancestry, loss in the Great War, and the simple country life of last century'. It will be held at the Neville Community Hall, on Saturday 16 May from 2pm - 4pm. For more information about the author go to her website www.leonehealy.com