Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 04 August
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Across the globe, children are fleeing their homes – running from violence, poverty or war – and looking for a better life.
Caroline Brothers is an experienced foreign correspondent who has taken up the issue of unaccompanied, displaced children in her debut novel, Hinterland. It’s a story about what is happening right now, on our borders and in our own cities, ports and farmlands, but is largely unseen until we are sensitised to it. Caroline talks about those countless young people the world over who find themselves, underage, homeless and invisible in foreign lands.
Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea: an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the middle of the day.
Featuring
Caroline Brothers
Caroline Brothers is a journalist and novelist.
Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin America, and as a journalist at the International New York Times. Her novel, The Memory Stones ,is published by Bloomsbury. She is also the author of Hinterland, and the non-fiction book War and Photography.