Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 14 September
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Anita Shreve is the much-loved novelist and international sensation. She visits the Wheeler Centre fresh from her appearance at the Brisbane Writers Festival. Presented in partnership with the Brisbane Writers Festival.
Anita’s latest novel, Rescue, is a masterful portrayal of a family trying to understand its own fractured past and begin again.
Featuring
Jane Sullivan
Jane Sullivan came to Australia from England in 1979 and worked for the Age as a reporter, feature writer and editor of various sections, including the books pages.
Jane won the inaugural Australian Human Rights Award for journalism.
At present, she writes a Saturday column, ‘Turning Pages’, and features about books and writing for the Age. Her first novel was The White Star. Her second novel, Little People, was shortlisted in the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and son.
Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve is the author of many acclaimed works, including Eden Close, The Weight of Water, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass, All He Ever Wanted, Light on Snow, Rescue, A Change in Altitude, Testimony and Body Surfing. The Pilot’s Wife and The Weight of Water have been made into films.
In 1998, Shreve received the PEN/L.L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction.