Esther Murray


About Esther Murray

As a bit of an idealist, Esther often dreams of a world where kindness is the currency and where no one ever suffers from hunger or mistreatment. In the hopes of making some part of this dream a reality, Esther studied a Bachelor of Social Work. She quickly discovered that she probably wasn’t going to save the world but could simply strive to make a difference in her everyday. Much later, as the sea of nappies, toys, teething and tantrums threatened to engulf the dreams of a former life, Esther began to write. Making meaning of a childhood in the Himalayas, the craziness of motherhood and the state of the world was a much-welcomed creative outlet. Esther loves doing life alongside her husband Clive raising their three young daughters. In her down-time Esther can be found drinking tea (never coffee), tinkering on the piano or bass-guitar, practicing her Urdu, rummaging the op-shops, or attempting some kind of DIY.




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To my gorgeous girls, my most precious daughters, What was it we spoke of the other day? I think your Dad called it ‘The Flesh Obsession’. This preoccupation with the body, sex and beauty that seems to dominate our popular culture. It screams at us from our TV screens, our advertising, […]

The Flesh Obsession





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Who would have thought those little brown freckles could create so much fascination? I am being studied as a specimen. Being spoken about, not to. My face is being touched and stroked and stared at – without inhibition. Nowhere to hide, nowhere to go. Me, in a tiny little village, […]

Little brown freckles