Aug 16, 2026 · 43 min · 9 segments
What happens when one place witnesses two extraordinary moments in history? In this episode of *Between The Lines*, we're joined by bestselling Australian author Mary-Lou Stephens to discuss *The…
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where perhaps she's not, but and Jenny is just a local Hobart girl who has a very ordinary job and but she gets caught up in this heady world of the casino and she becomes glamorous and a little bit more worldly over time.
But the casino
itself in 1973 was incredibly glamorous and the decor and the people who worked there and you had to dress up to get in.
They wouldn't let you in if you weren't, you know, didn't meet the dress code.
but in very different ways, you know, the 1939, 1940s fashion, the 1973 fashion with the platform shoes and the colonial V-knees and all this stuff.
And then with the Jam Maker, you know, we start off in the slums of Wapping where everyone's dirt poor.
So to write the Hobart Hotel, which is just glamour from start to finish, was a lot of fun to be quite honest.
Yeah, nice to spend your time there.
There's a lot more diamonds in this one than I imagine there might have been in...
On an apple orchard.
Yeah.
I think what I love too is that too, you know, Shell and I always love a strong female character and we have two of them in this novel as well.
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where perhaps she's not, but and Jenny is just a local Hobart girl who has a very ordinary job and but she gets caught up in this heady world of the casino and she becomes glamorous and a little bit more worldly over time.
But the casino
itself in 1973 was incredibly glamorous and the decor and the people who worked there and you had to dress up to get in.
They wouldn't let you in if you weren't, you know, didn't meet the dress code.
but in very different ways, you know, the 1939, 1940s fashion, the 1973 fashion with the platform shoes and the colonial V-knees and all this stuff.
And then with the Jam Maker, you know, we start off in the slums of Wapping where everyone's dirt poor.
So to write the Hobart Hotel, which is just glamour from start to finish, was a lot of fun to be quite honest.
Yeah, nice to spend your time there.
There's a lot more diamonds in this one than I imagine there might have been in...
On an apple orchard.
Yeah.
I think what I love too is that too, you know, Shell and I always love a strong female character and we have two of them in this novel as well.
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