The never-before-told story of Alice Anderson, entrepreneur and pioneer, who established the first motor service in Australia run entirely by women.
Alice would never be limited by societal expectation. At twenty, she founded Miss Anderson’s Motor Service and, through the last years of the Great War and into the 1920s, pulled off an almost impossible feat: without family or husband to back her financially, she grew her business from a fledgling touring service to an all-women motor garage. She was the embodiment of the 1920s modern woman. (Hachette, 2019)
Available in paperback, e-book, audiobook.
Was I related to the three-thousand-year-old Egyptian mummy, a child with thin, fractured bones and heart-shaped skull on display in the British Museum? Or perhaps ‘Ivar the Boneless’, the prince from ninth-century Denmark who was unable to walk on his soft legs and was, as legend has it, carried into battle on a shield? In an earlier time and place I would have been cast out, left in the forest for the wolves to devour.
My past is a question mark, my future and experiment.
(Spinifex, 2024). Available in paperback and e-book. For online purchases go to spinifexpress.com.au/lorettasmith
To those readers who enjoyed reading A Spanner in the Works you may well enjoy discovering the dramatic backstory to writing this biography in Corpus in Extremis.
