{"id":137902,"date":"2025-10-22T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137902\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:31:08","slug":"rachael-johns-socials-from-wa-authors-launch-of-new-novel-the-lucky-sisters-at-chapel-farm-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137902\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachael Johns: Socials from WA author\u2019s launch of new novel The Lucky Sisters at Chapel Farm Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Almost 100 people gathered at the beautiful Chapel Farm Estate in the Swan Valley on Tuesday night to celebrate the release of Rachael Johns\u2019 latest novel, The Lucky Sisters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Local writer Anthea Hodgson had the crowd laughing as she introduced Johns, while staff from Dymocks Hay Street were on hand to sell books as readers queued to have copies signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Johns, known for writing The Patterson Girls, spoke about the inspiration behind The Lucky Sisters and how her stories always begin with character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The audience was captivated as she shared insights into her writing process and the personal challenges of creating her most ambitious book yet. Holding the launch at Chapel Farm, which features in a chapter of the novel, made the evening especially fitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Fellow authors Tamara Moss, Deb Jordan, Holly Craig and debut novelist Jacinta Peachey were among those attending, with one guest telling Johns she had returned to reading thanks to her books &#8211; a moment the author said was the highlight of her night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 100 people gathered at the beautiful Chapel Farm Estate in the Swan Valley on Tuesday night to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17,8329,5570,22638],"class_list":{"0":"post-137902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-perth","14":"tag-social","15":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}