Sue Smethurst

Photograph © Sue Smethurst

About The Author

Sue Smethurst is a senior journalist with The Australian Women’s Weekly. She has spent 20 years in media working across television, radio and magazines. Her career has taken her around the globe interviewing the likes of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Kylie Minogue, Olivia Newton John and Christopher and Pixie Skase. In addition to her editorial career Sue has worked on and off camera with A Current Affair and Sunrise, and spent five years as a commentator with Neil Mitchell on 3AW. Blood on the Rosary is her seventh book, and her book Behind Closed Doors was a finalist for the 2016 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards. Sue lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.

Books by Sue Smethurst

Blood on the Rosary
By Sue Smethurst and Margaret Harrod
A heartfelt, brave and inspiring memoir about the power of speaking out.

A brave nun. Her twin brother. The secrets and lies that would tear them apart.

Twins share a special bond, a connection that can’t be put into words. Margaret Harrod shared that bond with her tw...
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Behind Closed Doors

Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse

By Sue Smethurst and Katherine X
Four children by her father. Thirty years of horrific sexual abuse.

Now updated with a new epilogue, detailing Katherine’s brave stand at the Royal Commission
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