The Eights: An Afternoon with Joanna Miller and Kyra Geddes
Sun, 27 July
|Better Read Than Dead
Join us with Joanna Miller for an afternoon tea to celebrate the release of The Eights! Joanna will be in-conversation with Kyra Geddes.
Time & Location
27 July 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
About The Event
They knew they were changing history. They didn’t know they would change each other.
Following the unlikely friendship of four of the first ever women to study at Oxford University: a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a world that has changed forever.
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship.
Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Beatrice, politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way…
Tickets
Event + Book
Includes a ticket and copy of The Eights
$40.00
Event Ticket
$5.00
Total
$0.00