As you travel along the Clare Valley Riesling Trail, you’ll see a sculpture honouring a locally born novelist, Monica McInerney.

This well-known author of 14 international bestselling books, is captured in this sculpture, which depicts her as a child sitting on the roof of her home and reading books. The sculptor was a local artist Paul Leditschke.

The sculpture can be found near Monica’s childhood home which was the stationmaster’s house, when her father worked at the Clare Railway Station. Her mother worked in the local library and her family home which housed seven children was a noisy and busy house full of visitors, so she found the quietest place to sit and read was on the roof of the house. This is where her love of books began.

The sculpture depicts her as a 10 year old child enjoying a stack of books on top of the corrugated tin roof, which also resembles the pages of an open book. As well as novels for adults, Monica has also now written a children’s book called ‘Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat’.

The sculpture can be found in a park next to the Riesling Trail on Station Road, Clare South Australia.

Enjoy

Glenys