JURA REILLY is an Australian-Lithuanian author of three previous novels, each drawing upon stories told by her great- aunts, Irena and Viktoria, who had endured many years of exile in Siberia and her immediate family, who had migrated as Displaced Persons to Australia in the wake of WW2. She has published "Laima's Lunch / Laimos Pietūs" as the first in a series of bilingual children's books.
