'Why Wollongong will always sing me back'

By Kylie Matthews
Updated June 29 2014 - 4:28pm, first published June 28 2014 - 1:33pm
Now settled in the Illawarra after years as a gypsy, Nikki Gemmell will feature at this year’s Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival at  Bowral.  Picture: KATHY LUU
Now settled in the Illawarra after years as a gypsy, Nikki Gemmell will feature at this year’s Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival at Bowral. Picture: KATHY LUU
 Nikki Gemmell and her family visiting Santa at the now-defunct Wollongong department store Horderns.
Nikki Gemmell and her family visiting Santa at the now-defunct Wollongong department store Horderns.

Best-selling author Nikki Gemmell may have travelled a long way from her childhood home near Mt Keira but, she tells KYLIE MATTHEWS, the Gong will always sing her back. 

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