Natasha Lester High Tea
Sat, 04 May
|Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead
Join bestselling author Natasha Lester for a high tea of scones, sandwiches, champagne and sweets to celebrate the release of The French Photographer.
Time & Location
04 May 2019, 3:00 pm
Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia
Guests
About The Event
Join Natasha Lester, bestselling author of Her Mother's Secret and The Paris Seamstress, for a high tea of scones, sandwiches, champagne and sweets to celebrate the release of The French Photographer, a novel inspired by the incredible true story of Lee Miller, Vogue model turned one of the first female war photojournalists.
About the Book
Manhattan, Paris, 1942: When Jessica May's successful modelling career is abruptly cut short, she is assigned to the war in Europe as a photojournalist for Vogue. But when she arrives the army men make her life as difficult as possible. Three friendships change that: journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules, paratrooper Dan Hallworth takes her to places to shoot pictures and write stories that matter, and a little girl, Victorine, who has grown up in a field hospital, shows her love. But success comes at a price.
France, 2005: Australian curator D'Arcy…
Tickets
High Tea Ticket
$15.00
Sold OutHigh Tea Ticket + Book
Your ticket to the High Tea, plus a pre-ordered copy of The French Photographer.
$40.00
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