Australian Story · SEASON 19

Driving Miss Davis

Episode 21 · 2014-06-23

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Episode overview

This week the quirky, life affirming story of a young Australian from country Victoria, a car with a history, and a novel that's on its way to becoming a runaway success around the world. Seven years ago, Brooke Davis was travelling overseas when she received bad news from home. From that sad turning point, she's unexpectedly created a funny and touching book that challenges conventions around loss and grief, and advocates living life to the full - whatever your age. Brooke Davis was working part-time in a Perth bookshop when her manuscript excited the attention of a publisher. Even ahead of its release in Australia, the novel started a bidding war with sales to publishers in more than twenty countries from the USA to Portugal. Now Brooke Davis is telling her own story…

30 minutes

Season 19 episodes

1. The Other Side2014-02-03 2. The Back of His Mind2014-02-10 3. No Half Measures2014-02-17 4. Call Me Cate2014-02-24 5. His Driving Force2014-03-03 6. An Unnatural History2014-03-10 7. The House of Tara2014-03-17 8. Out of the Box2014-03-24 9. Set in Stone2014-03-31 10. A Complicated Life: Kerry Packer , Part 12014-04-07 11. A Complicated Life: Kerry Packer , Part 22014-04-14 12. A Man Called Boy2014-04-21 13. A Very Good Rascal2014-04-28 14. The Edge of the Mountain2014-05-05 15. In Tracy's Corner2014-05-12 16. All the Right Moves: Kieren Perkins , Part 12014-05-19 17. All the Right Moves: Kieren Perkins , Part 22014-05-26 18. Out of the Kitchen2014-06-02 19. The Last Commando , Part 12014-06-09 20. The Last Commando , Part 22014-06-16 21. Driving Miss Davis2014-06-23 22. Forget Me Not2014-06-30 23. Talk of the Town2014-07-07 24. The Game Changer2014-07-14 25. Leaps and Bounds2014-07-21 26. Divide and Conquer2014-07-28 27. Lock Me Away2014-08-04 28. Searching for C112014-08-11 29. Searching for C11 (2)2014-08-18 30. Before the Storm2014-08-25 31. Out of the Shoebox2014-09-01 32. Getting the Hang of It2014-09-08 33. The Past Is a Foreign Country2014-09-15 34. The Past Is a Foreign Country (2)2014-09-22 35. The Pursuit of Happiness2014-09-29 36. I Am Jack2014-10-06 37. Vanishing Act2014-10-13 38. The Innocent2014-10-20 39. The Innocent (2)2014-10-27 40. How I Met Your Father2014-11-03 41. Just Call Me Bob2014-11-10 42. Just Call Me Bob (2)2014-11-17 43. Letter from Wooleen2014-11-24