THURSDAY 2 MAY | INSTORE EVENT
*Special time* 5pm for a 5.30pm start | 60 mins
Join us for a conversation between Annie de Monchaux, Jane Tara, Trish Bolton and moderator Kristina Olsson about their novels and how women over fifty are one of the most invisible species on the planet, but it is becoming harder for society to shut them in the broom cupboard.
*10% off if you buy all 3 books on the evening*
ABOUT THE BOOKS
Audrey's Gone Awol - Annie de Monchaux
Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she’s become aware that she lost herself somewhere between 'I do' and the weekly shop. Worse, her academic husband Simon has found time for romance – just not with Audrey. Feeling invisible to everyone, even herself, she flees to her aunt’s home in rural France.
While waiting for her sudden absence to spark a change of heart in Simon, Audrey finds solace in the charms of the French countryside and the company of her aged aunt and a cast of eccentric Bretons. Soon Audrey discovers going AWOL might do more than save her marriage, it might change her life.
Audrey’s Gone AWOL is a funny and beautifully observed story about losing yourself, finding yourself, and discovering joy.
Tilda Is Visible - Jane Tara
When Tilda Finch is diagnosed with invisibility, she's not overly surprised – she's felt invisible for years. She has a good life and a successful business selling inspirational quotes on merchandise. But she's never really recovered from her divorce. Or, if she's honest, her childhood. Tilda's past has taken a toll and she's lost sight of herself. Now, with the possibility of completely disappearing, she must face the trauma of her past and rewrite the way she perceives the world, and herself.
Entertaining, hilarious and poignant, Tilda Is Visible addresses the power of our thoughts and how childhood trauma shapes our adult experience.
Whenever You're Ready - Trish Bolton
A love letter to the lives of older women, Whenever You're Ready is a moving and perceptive novel about three women searching for a way forward in the wake of a sudden loss.
An unexpected death finds Lizzie, Alice and Margot at various crossroads in their lives, torn between looking back and moving on.
Whenever You're Ready is a sweetly wise and gently wistful novel about the secrets and seasons of three intertwined lives.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Annie de Monchaux is a West Australian–based writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her non-fiction anthology Cray Tales was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Awards and was the basis of a CBS/ABC documentary. Prior to this, Annie worked in Hollywood, rewriting scripts for films such as Superman II, III and IV and The Shell Game.
Jane Tara has published over a hundred children's books, several plays and five novels. She's a daily meditator, a sucker for a rescue mutt and, most of all, a front-row cheerleader for her two sons. She spent thirteen years wandering the world and lived in five countries but is now happily at home in Sydney. Jane is the general manager at Australia's largest book review community, Better Reading.
Trish Bolton is a writer based in Melbourne. Her writing has been published in The Age, Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canberra Times, Overland, New Matilda, The Big Issue and Visible Ink. Trish has been the recipient of an Australian Society of Authors mentorship, a Varuna Publishing Introduction Pathway Fellowship, a Varuna Residential Writer's Fellowship, joint-winner of a Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Jim Hamilton unpublished manuscript award, runner-up FAW Whitelight Drama Script Award and longlisted for the Virginia Prize for Fiction and the Mslexia Women's Novel Competition.
