About the Author

Pip Williams is co-author of the book Time Bomb: Work, Rest and Play in Australia Today (NewSouth Press, 2012). As a social scientist, she has also published many academic papers, book chapters and reports on the subject of a good life and these have been the subject of interviews and discussions in all major newspapers and on national and regional radio. Pip has published two travel articles based on the journey described in ONE ITALIAN SUMMER (InDaily,16 June 2015; The Australian, 30 June 2012). She writes book reviews that are produced for Radio Northern Beaches and published in InDaily, and she has published flash fiction online. Pip is very proud of a poem she published in Dolly Magazine when she was 15 years old. Pip lives in Adelaide.