Maggie Walters & Cynthia Banham In Conversation With Anna Featherstone
Mon, 17 Aug
|Better Read Than Dead
Join us as Anna Featherstone discusses Maggie and Cynthia's new books about motherhood, family and identity.
Time & Location
17 Aug 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
About The Event
Join us for a conversation between Maggie Walters, Cynthia Banham and Anna Featherstone as they discuss family, identity and motherhood. The talk will be in celebration of Maggie's new book Fractured Motherhood and Cynthia's book Mother Shadow
About The Books:
Mother Shadow is a meditation on what it means to be a 'good mother' where two women - separated by continents and time but connected by blood - each find themselves enchained by social and personal forces that seek to limit them. The book blends a reimagining of the life of a 19th century unmarried peasant woman from Bologna who abandons her daughter to a foundling home - institutions known as slaughterhouses for the babies who died there - with present day reflection on the challenges of mothering with a disability.
Fractured Motherhood is a raw and lyrical memoir of fear and resilience, love and repair—a story of inherited wounds,…
Tickets
General Admission
$10.00
+$0.25 ticket service fee
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