Honey Blood: Kirsty Everett in-conversation with Patti Miller
Mon, 04 Sept
|Better Read Than Dead
Join us with Kirsty Everett and Patti Miller for a discussion about Kirsty's memoir Honey Blood, in acknowledgment of Blood Cancer Awareness Month and to raise funds for the Children's Cancer Institute of Australia.
Time & Location
04 Sept 2023, 6:30 pm – 7:50 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
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About The Event
'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down'
Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she'd set. Aged nine, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent the next two and a half years in treatment and attending the funerals of children she met in the cancer ward. At the age of sixteen, Kirsty's cancer returned. Faced with a devastating prognosis, she threw herself into as much as she could - friends, school, drama, sport, even a life-writing course with Patti Miller. As she said, 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down.'
Against the odds, Kirsty survived. She never achieved gold at the Olympics, but she learned a lot about people, attitudes and resilience.
This is a book about growing…
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Proceeds go to the Childrens Cancer Institute
$5.00
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This ticket includes a donation and copy of Honey Blood
$40.00
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