Jane CafarellaJane Cafarella is an Australian playwright and former journalist and cartoonist whose work has been widely published in Australia and overseas and whose plays have been performed nationally and internationally. Her cartoon archive is held at the Stat Library of Victoria.During her 10 years at Melbourne's Age newspaper, Jane wrote and edited the popular Accent section, which focused on women's issues, and for many years wrote the beloved columns A New Life Journal and Family Postcard.What she didn't write about was growing up with what she later discovered was Milroy's disease, a rare form of the incurable and progressive swelling disease lymphoedema - and how she came to be estranged from her family of origin for most of her adult life.When she did, it changed her life. Read More Read Less