Join Annabel Crabb and Ned Manning in conversation discussing Ned’s first novel ‘Painting the Light’, hosted by Gleebooks.

Ned speaks to Sarah Maguire about his mother’s dashed dreams of becoming an artist, his father’s progressive politics in conservative country NSW and writing his first novel, a love letter to his parents.

“Ned Manning has provided a historical romance in his novel Painting the Light. It is a love story of two young Australians who sacrificed their dreams in the hope of never seeing such a catastrophe as a world war ever happening again. “

What happens to an actor during those terrifying moments directly before the curtain rises…