Victorian-based author Glenna Thomson's latest effort Stella and Margie will be discussed during an author's talk at the Port Macquarie Library on Wednesday November 28.

The talk starts at 10am.

From a farming background, Glenna and her husband also managed a commercial blueberry orchard, which inspired her first novel Blueberry.

With about one in ten elderly parents living with their adult children in Australia, Stella and Margie focuses on this shifting relationship where parents become reliant on the very people they once cared for.

The author says her two books - she received a two book deal aged in her 60s - are about inter-generational families.

"This is a common theme for women of my age," she says.

"I've got three kids, step children, grandchildren and an aged mother in care.

"You want this to be your time, so you can do what you want to do. But life is not like that. You have to fit in around everybody else.

"You love everybody, but you have this sense of ‘what about me’.

"This dynamic of families is what Stella and Margie is about."

The author says Stella and her mother-in-law Margie are two very different women.

Glenna described both women as endearing in their own way.

"But Stella is into community theatre and is a bit sexy while Margie was the matriarch of the house who ran the place like a ship.

"That is the conflict.

"The narrative takes us to a place where these two women have to work things out. I'd like to think the book ends in a good place."

Stella and Margie explores this relationship that spans generations and reminds us of our vulnerabilities and need to feel valued. 

As the relationship between Stella and her mother-in-law Margie deepens, their understanding of each other grows and they realise that despite their differences, in age or otherwise, each wants the same thing. 

"To feel that they belong," the author says.

Stella and Margie also examines the reality of ageing for women and its resultant feelings of invisibility, a powerful yet rarely-discussed issue.

Above all else, Stella and Margie is a novel about acceptance, reconciliation and a touching friendship that crosses the generations.

Glenna said Stella and Margie took some 18 months to complete.

Now working full time as a writer, the author says both her current books will be available at her talk at Port Macquarie Library on November 28, 10am.

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