Pip Williams: The German Ward [Bendigo]

Bestselling novelist Pip Williams discusses her breathtaking new work of fiction, The German Ward, at this special event in Bendigo.

Pip Williams is the globally bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho, two richly imagined historical novels that brought overlooked lives, untold stories and the enduring power of words into vivid focus.

Now, she returns with a deeply moving new novel about desire, forbidden love and the transformative power of art. The German Ward follows an English nurse and a German doctor who fall in love amid the upheaval of war. Their relationship is destined to disappear from history – until a series of remarkable drawings, uncovered more than a century later, reveals the traces of their extraordinary connection.

Join Williams in Bendigo for a captivating conversation about the stories history leaves behind, the lives that shape our understanding of the past and the imagination required to bring them back into the light. With Astrid Edwards.

Presented in partnership with Goldfields Libraries and supported by City of Greater Bendigo