Lech Blaine in-conversation with Jess Hill
Tue, 05 Nov
|The Vanguard
Join us with Lech Blaine to celebrate the release of Australian Gospel! Lech will be in-conversation with Jess Hill.
Time & Location
05 Nov 2024, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The Vanguard, 42 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
Guests
About The Event
From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a gripping true story about the tangled fates of two couples and the foster children trapped between them.
Michael and Mary Shelley are Christian fanatics who loathe their fellow Australians – especially their 'reckless indulgence of alcohol and obsession with idiotic ball sports'. Lenore and Tom Blaine are working-class Queensland publicans raising a large family in a raucous, loving, sports-obsessed home. There's just one problem. The Blaines are foster parents to three of the Shelleys' children, who were removed from Michael and Mary as infants. And the Shelleys are prepared to do anything to get them back. Anything.
Australian Gospel is a family saga like no other – heartbreaking, hilarious and altogether astonishing.
'One of the best writers of his generation.' Benjamin Law
Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash and the Quarterly Essay Top Blokes. His writing has appeared…