Circle of Wonders - Truth-telling in Storytelling

Biographers in Conversation · Sep 24, 2026 · 35m

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kathryn Heyman chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Circle of Wonders.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

‘Circle of Wonders’ is a novel about a group of women who gather in the Blue Mountains to support their friend Ronnie Bloom through the final month of her life.

‘Circle of Wonders’ began as a memoir shortly after Kathryn’s sister and mother died in the same month during 2020.

Ten weeks later, Kathryn decided to write the book as fictional version of the story. It is then that she found the story’s circular, lunar…