Alicia, also known as Lisa, Braithwaite will head back to Leeton as guest speaker at the town's first University of the Third Age (U3A) meeting on Thursday. 

Ms Braithwaite will bring with her the children’s adventure novel Puppy Pie, which set wrote and said as it was set on a farm it brought back a flood of Leeton memories. 

“The book is published under the pseudonym, Sam Jasper, as I was told that boys don't read books written by 'girls',” she said.

However, Ms Braithwaite also writes under her own name.

She will speak of her experiences as an author and discuss her connection to Leeton. 

Ms Braithwaite is the eldest daughter of the late Bernard and Min Braithwaite.

Her father was a rice and sheep farmer at Whitton until the early 1960s when they moved to Sydney.

Ms Braithwaite will be the first ever guest speaker for the newly-former Leeton branch of U3A. 

Ms Braithwaite now lives on the other side of the Blue Mountains.

Her grandfather Clarence Braithwaite was instrumental in helping set up the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.

Ms Braithwaite also thanked the Leeton Italian community for restoring the angels in the St Joseph's Catholic Church in town that were donated by her grandparents in memory of her brother, Patrick.

“I'm looking forward to seeing them again in their pristine state,” she said.

“I have seen photos of them and they look beautiful and ‘angelic’.

“I’m also looking forward to catching up with my old class from St Joseph’s Primary School.”