• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
The Interiors Addict

The Interiors Addict

Style without the Snobbery

Job Board
  • Job Board
  • About
  • Before & Afters
  • RENO ADDICT
  • Kitchens
  • Bathrooms
  • Kids Rooms
  • Bedrooms
  • Living Room
  • Shopping
  • Expert Tips
  • Recipes
  • Parenting
  • Travel
Interiors Addict
  • About
    • Our Story

      Australiaโ€™s largest interior design, styling and renovation blog for the everyday Aussie. By former journalist and magazine editor Jen Bishop, the original interiors addict!
      READ MORE

      Weโ€™re big on Instagram!
      @interiorsaddict

      • About
      • Contact Interiors Addict
      • Work with Interiors Addict
      • Advertise / Find a job in Interiors
      • Press
      • Subscribe

    • How to Pull a Living Room Look Together eBookSubscribe to the Newsletter!
  • By Room
    • Browse by Room

      Where you can search for all our posts about a specific room. Only interested in kitchens and bathrooms? We got you!

      • Kitchens
      • Bathrooms
      • Kids Rooms
      • Bedrooms
      • Living Room
      • Home Office
      • Dining
      • Laundry
      • Outdoor & Exteriors
      • Renting
    • How to Pull a Living Room Look Together eBookSubscribe to the Newsletter!
  • Before & Afters
    • Before & Afters

      Who doesnโ€™t LOVE a good before & after? If you want to be inspired by the whole reno process, and not just the shiny photos at the end, this is the place for you!

      View Articles

      • Before & Afters
      • Jen’s reno
      • Real Renos
      • RENO ADDICT
    • AFTER front elevationEdwardian beauty revealed under 80s facade and saved from demolition
    • tiktokFive of the best home dรฉcor TikTok creators
  • Reno Addict
    • RENO ADDICT

      Looking for reno inspo? Find it all here, from other peopleโ€™s projects to the latest trends, tools and products, whether youโ€™re DIY-ing or employing trades.

      View articles

      • Reno Products
      • DIY
      • Reno Trends
      • Before & Afters
      • Real Renos
    • Master bedroomJapanese & mid-century design inspire unique Sydney home
    • Kate-Image10 dream homes created using simple SketchUp software
  • Shopping
    • Shopping

      Want to know where to buy the latest furniture, homewares, rugs, art and more? Weโ€™re always sharing our latest finds and telling you where you can buy them.

      View Articles

      • Furniture
      • Homewares
      • Art
      • Smart Home
      • Appliances
      • Reno Products
    • Slowdown Studio throwWinter throw blankets: Eight of the best!
    • Eva Solo kitchen storage8 useful kitchen items that are stylish enough to leave out on the bench
  • Inspiration
    • Inspiration

      While Jenโ€™s a legitimate interiors addict, sheโ€™s no design professional, so she calls on an army of the countryโ€™s best to share their expertise with you. Be inspired by their stories too!

      View Articles

      • Decorating 101
      • Interviews
      • Expert Tips
      • Before & Afters
      • House Tours
      • Designers
      • Styling
      • Renovating
      • Real Renos
      • Covet my coffee table
    • ho-5Design inspirations: Turia Pitt’s unique, Zoom ready home office
  • Lifestyle
    • Lifestyle

      Weโ€™re mostly about the home but Jen also likes to share other things she thinks youโ€™ll love, like food and travel.

      • Recipes
      • Travel
      • Parenting
    • PO-boy-Long-1Foodie Friday: Prawn Po’ Boy with hot sauce
    • SOUL-of-Gerringong-backyard5 ways to make more money from your holiday property
  • Jobs
    • Advertise on our Job Board
    • Job Board FAQs for advertisers

From interiors to fiction, Georgia Madden’s debut novel

November 11, 2015 Leave a Comment

Facebook0Pin00Email0Tweet0

Writing about interiors for the last 18 years, it had always been Georgia Madden’s dream to try her hand at fiction. So, a couple of years ago with her 40th birthday approaching, it felt like a now or never moment, and with a wine glass in hand(!) she started writing.

Georgie-Madden
Georgia

“I write decorating features everyday so I thought writing fiction would be a doddle,” explains Georgia. “It wasnโ€™t! But it was certainly a lot of fun.ย I was shocked and delighted when Nero picked the book up.”

Seeing it as aย chance to make peace with some of the more difficult times she went through as a new mother, Georgia’s debut novel,ย Confessions of A Once Fashionable Mum, is a tongue-in-cheek look at the joys and horrors of the first year of motherhood. With soย many books out there about how wonderful and fulfilling motherhood can be โ€“ instant bonding, overwhelming love and the perfect family — Georgia wanted to write about the flip side — the mess, the exhaustion and the whole not remembering your own name thing! “Whileย motherhood is certainly an amazing time Iโ€™ve never been great with change and adapting to life at home with a baby took me a while,” says Georgia. “Itโ€™s a crazy, heartbreaking, heartwarming time, but a lot of it is also pretty funny. Thatโ€™s really what I was hoping to capture in Confessions.”

Confessions-COVER SHOT-1

Still reporting on interiors by day — Georgia writes for the likes ofย House & Garden, Inside Out and Home Beautiful — she found her knowledge ofย interiors to be imperative whenย writing her novel. “One of the best parts of my job is writing about peopleโ€™s homes and Iโ€™ve been lucky enough to meet some fascinating people and seen some gorgeous homes along the way.ย Iโ€™d be lying if I didnโ€™t admit that at least a couple of the scenarios I encountered have found their way into Confessions.”

Now working on her next novel,ย which is again focused on women, friendship and family, Georgia is currently trying to find that sweet spot between balancing feature writing and fiction… oh, and looking after theย kids, of course!

Confessions of a Once Fashionable Mum (Nero Books) is out now.ย Buy it online.

Facebook0Pin00Email0Tweet0

Primary Sidebar

Trending This Week

Visit Jen's profile on Pinterest.

Subscribe

Love interiors and renovating? Sign up for our bi-weekly emails featuring all the best bits! We'll also send you our free eBook:
How to Pull a Living Room Look Together

Real Renos

AFTER front elevation

Edwardian beauty revealed under 80s facade and saved from demolition

Five of the best home dรฉcor TikTok creators

AFTER dining

1980’s home on NSW South Coast gets remarkable makeover

Fun and colour abound in artist Kate Jansen’s Mornington home

House

Queenslander home reno: Chocolate timber melds old with new

Avatar

About Olivia Shead

When she's not writing for Interiors Addict, Olivia is now a TV and radio news producer. She's a journalism graduate of UTS Sydney.

More from Interviews

Master bedroom

Japanese & mid-century design inspire unique Sydney home

AFTER front elevation

Edwardian beauty revealed under 80s facade and saved from demolition

The 'Biarritz' wall sconce

Unique designer lighting created on NSW North Coast

AFTER dining

1980’s home on NSW South Coast gets remarkable makeover

Fun and colour abound in artist Kate Jansen’s Mornington home

Buildher8

Eight women team up to build houses in unique model

House

Queenslander home reno: Chocolate timber melds old with new

Breakfast bar

A coastal farmhouse style kitchen renovation on the Gold Coast

Breeze Furniture

Furniture subscription service: it’s a thing!

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Promo Area

Subscribe and Win

Sign up to our twice-weekly newsletter for all the best bits! Subscribe between now and March 31 for your chance to win a limited edition fabric artwork by Antoinette Ferwerda to use on your wall, table or however you like!
You must also follow Antoinette on Instagram for your entry to be valid.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Footer

Interiors Addict

Interiors Addict

  • About
  • Contact
  • Work with Jen
  • Press
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Disclosure Policy

Browse

  • RENO ADDICT
  • Jen’s Reno
  • House Tours
  • Real Renos
  • Interviews
  • Styling
  • Designers
  • Bedrooms
  • Covet My Coffee Table
  • Expert Tips
  • The Block
  • Art
  • Furniture
  • Recipes

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RENO ADDICT

Copyright © 2011–2021 Addicted Media Pty Ltd
Website care by ClickWP ยท Log in

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!