The Girls - Chloe Higgins in conversation with Fiona Wright

Join us for the Sydney launch of The Girls, a stunning memoir of love, loss and sexuality. Chloe Higgins will be in conversation with Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole. 

About the Book 

In 2005, Chloe Higgins was seventeen years old. She and her mother, Rhonda, stayed home so that she could revise for her HSC exams while her two younger sisters, Carlie and Lisa, went skiing with their father. On the way back from their trip, their car veered off the highway, flipped on its side and burst into flames. Both her sisters were killed. Their father walked away from the accident with only minor physical injuries. This book is about what happened next.

The Girls is an excoriating memoir of loss, love and sexuality which recalls Kate Holden, Fiona Wright or Sarah Krasnostein.

Praise

'An astounding new voice whose work mines the slippery regions between grief, sex, love, parents and children. This book is a rare find.' - Felicity Castagna

'A tender and heartfelt book, exploring the intricacies and long aftermath of trauma and grief with great frankness and directness. Its honest and exacting exploration of what happens to the body and the self in grief is deeply moving, without being excoriating, and the writing is both lyrical and tough - Higgins has a distinctive and accomplished voice, and this book is a beautiful achievement.' - Fiona Wright

'An urgent, poetic and skinless howl of a book.' - Lee Kofman

About the Author 

Chloe Higgins writes about the things we’re all afraid of: death, sex, love, and how we feel about our mothers. Chloe is the Director of Wollongong Writers Festival, a casual lecturer and tutor in creative writing at the University of Wollongong where she is completing a PhD, and a member of the Finishing School Collective. Originally from south-west Sydney, she now lives in Wollongong and travels the world for three months per year. The Girls, a memoir of family, grief and sexuality, is her debut.