Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781922464392)

Eve Langley's editor, the famous Beatrice Davis, declared that 'the personal side of Eve's life was coloured with madly poetic aberrations that would make any biographer pale if he wanted to get to the facts'. For 20 years, Helen Vines has trawled the archives to establish what most have viewed as an impossible task: separating the facts from the fiction of Eve Langley's life. Helen is a writer and editor who has been published in industry, education and union journals including Australian Educator and HR Monthly. Her first published creative essay was in Island Magazine and she co-authored Status and Reward: The History of Industrial Representation of Professional Engineers in Australia 1946-1996 with Brian Lloyd. Helen was raised on a farm in Drumborg, deep in the Western District of Victoria. She attended Heywood High School and Hamilton College, took an Honours Arts degree and Diploma of Education at the University of Melbourne, and an MA and PhD at the University of Tasmania. She has raised three wonderful children.