HOPE
ENDURES
Colette Livermore
Biography
Colette Livermore is a general practitioner working on the Central Coast of NSW.
For eleven years she was a member of Mother Teresa’s order, the Missionaries of Charity, which she left in 1983.
In 1985 she commenced studying medicine at the University of Queensland – an older woman in a class of teenagers. Following graduation, she worked in rural Queensland, the Central Coast and then the Northern Territory, where the despair facing the people living in remote communities affected her deeply.
In 2000 she became a medical volunteer in a rural clinic in Aileu, East Timor where she worked with local staff to overcome tuberculosis, malnutrition and infectious diseases.
In 2003 family circumstances called her back to Australia where she now lives and works.
After Mother Teresa’s beatification in 2003, she decided to write an account of her life within Mother Teresa’s order and her subsequent struggle to make sense of the world without the God she had hitherto dedicated her life to.
Her memoir, Hope Endures, was published in Australia by Random House in November 2008, and in North America by Free Press in December 2008.
For further information or to request an interview, please email media@randomhouse.com.au, or use our Contact page to send a message to Colette.