PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Edward A. M. Mortensen was born and raised on Thursday Island in Far North Queensland. He served in the Royal Australian Navy as a Naval Officer for 15 years, achieving the rank of Lieutenant. He served on the frigates, HMAS Shoalhaven and HMAS Condamine in the Korean War, and on HMS Devonshire taking part in the Fleet Reviews to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. He was only one of two Thursday Islanders who had succeeded in attending the Flinders Naval College. He married in 1959 and had four children. Dimity Mortensen was born and educated in Sydney. She lived in London for seven years, working at Christie's Fine Art Auction House and travelling through the Middle East, Europe and Eastern Europe including Russia. She decided to return home to Australia to start her career as a writer, and has since been published in some of the top literary journals in Australia. Her first novel, Love: A Parable Without a Moral, published in 2008, was positively reviewed by the Gold Coast's Weekend Bulletin as Imaginative describing it as, In a word: Compelling. The Gatton, Lockyer and Brisbane Valley Star, Wolykat, likewise highly praised it as, ...a book that I would recommend to anyone...
