Join emerging author Lucie Stevens as she speaks about her first middle-grade book, R.I.P. Nanny Tobbins. In this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to ask Lucie about her books and the inspiration for her writing.  

London, 1850. When Nanny Tobbins fell of a horse and broke her neck, the grown-ups told nine-year-old Albertine she'd never see her beloved governess again. But it simply isn't true. For every night, when the clock strikes twelve, Nanny returns to the nursery.

Yet in her new ghostly state, Nanny Tobbins quickly cause chaos in the household - and the timing couldn't be more inconvenient. Albertine's new stepmother is struggling to settle in and Papa is much occupied working with Prince Albert on the Great Exhibition. To make matters worse, the grown-ups don't believe in ghosts at all, leaving Albertine to take the blame for Nanny's antics.

With The Stepmother's patience wearing thinning by the day and Nanny becoming every more unruly, can Albertine restore peace to her home before the unthinkable occurs?

Lucie Stevens is a children's author living on Gadigal land who grew up in a semi-rural area of Dharug Country, north-west of Sydney, in a house that definitely wasn't haunted. After working in Australian publishing houses for many years, Lucie movie to Berlin to make kids' education outreach programs for the UK and European Space Agencies. Her house in Berlin wasn't haunted either, but she did live beside the cemetery where the Brothers Grimm are buried. R.I.P. Nanny Tobbins is Lucie's first children's novel. Look out for its sequel in 2026!