The Broken Book by Fiona Farrell

Walking out of necessity and walking for pleasure - Fiona rediscovers the latter while on the Katherine Mansfield fellowship in Menton in the south of France. Audio

Walking a track in France following the same path as Robert Louis Stevenson's, 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes'. Audio

Fiona walks her granddaughter down the steepest street in the world thinking about being in the autumn of her life and being accompanied by Spring. Audio

Some history on Fiona's home in Banks Peninsula and what runs through her mind on her morning walk. Audio

The year Fiona noticed everything getting bigger, this masculinist era we're living in and how her granddaughter changes Fiona's perception when they walk together. Audio

Jolted awake by the earthquake on the 4th of September 2010, Fiona and her community are relieved no one has died. Audio

Dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake Fiona looks things up. She discovers a poem and an account of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. Audio

Stopped for lunch Fiona feels the quake on the 22nd of February 2011, but the car radio reveals the true impact. Audio