On a rudely gorgeous Sydney autumn day, Brooke Boney greets me with a warm hug. We’re meeting at the Botanic Gardens, resplendent with blue skies, a gentle breeze and dappled sunlight overlooking the Harbour Bridge. Birds are singing overhead and Boney is smiling widely. After spending the past eight months in the UK winter cloistered in Oxford University studying a masters of public policy, the April warmth is a much-needed balm.
The journalist and proud Gamilaroi woman has been popping up on Instagram, in bookstore windows and in public talks and interviews across the country since the release of her first book, All of It. She returned from the UK less than a fortnight ago. “Honestly, it’s crazy,” she says.
