Molly Murn
Mon, 11 Feb
|Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead
Join us for an evening with Molly Murn in-conversation with author Meredith Jaffe discussing Molly's debut novel, Heart of the Grass Tree. Alex Miller, twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, calls Molly's book "a brilliant achievement."
Time & Location
11 Feb 2019, 6:30 pm
Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia
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About The Event
Join us for an evening with Molly Murn in-conversation with author Meredith Jaffe discussing Molly's debut novel, Heart of the Grass Tree.
About the Book
Pearl remembers Nell’s feet stretched towards the campfires on the beach, her fourth toe curled in and nestled against the middle toe like a small prawn. They all have a curled fourth toe – Diana, Lucy, Pearl.
When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly, Pearl and her family – mother Diana, sister Lucy – return to Kangaroo Island to mourn and farewell her. Each of them knew Nell intimately but differently, and each woman must reckon with Nell’s passing in her own way. But Nell had secrets, too, and as Pearl, Diana and Lucy interrogate their feelings about the island, Pearl starts to pull together the scraps Nell left behind – her stories, poems, paintings – and unearths a connection to the island’s early history, of…
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Your ticket to the launch, plus a pre-ordered copy of Heart of the Grass Tree
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