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Ella Ward

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Born

Melbourne, Australia

Website

https://www.ellaward.com.au

Genre

Nonfiction, Memoir

Member Since

June 2013

URL

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Ella Ward has worked in advertising for twenty years. This means she has a proclivity for profanity and doesn’t respect punctuation.
In 2018 she was hit with the cancer stick, which apart from being rather frightening also encouraged a foray into oversharing on Instagram, and then – magically – writing.
Her words have been published in places like Frankie, Lunch Lady, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Ella lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, child, dog, cat and many (many) neuroses.
She’s also writing this about herself in the third person, which she acknowledges is both pretentious and a bit weird.

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Ella Ward and 1 other person liked Annie's review of The Cicada House: "This is a story of loss, love and adventure from a relationship breakdown in England to a reawakening at a beachside setting in Australia, with a mysterious romantasy thrown in. Overall I enjoyed the plot of the book and the narration of the audio ver" Read more of this review »
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