Author Talk - Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion

Join esteemed author Anne Buist and bestselling author Graeme Simsion as they discuss their latest novel, The General Hospital. In the book, trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright is back where she worked as an intern: the general hospital. This time, instead of dealing with patients' broken bodies, she's tackling their mental health issues. When she's not on call, Hannah finds herself navigating an unexpected friendship and a new relationship with fellow trainee Alex, before her grandmother reveals an explosive family secret.

Professor Anne Buist is chair of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and the architect of the national screening program for perinatal depression. She began writing at eight but forged a medical career until 2015 when she wrote Medea's Curse, the first of five psychological crime novels. The internationally bestselling Two Steps Forward, co-authored with her husband, Graeme Simsion, was optioned to Fox Searchlight / Disney, along with its sequel. She is co-author of the Menzies Mental Health series with Graeme.

Dr Graeme Simsion is the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Rosie Project, which spent 65 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and, with its two sequels, has sold seven million copies in forty languages. A film is in development with Sony Pictures. The Best of Adam Sharp, also an international bestseller, is in development with New Sparta Pictures and Creative Differences was optioned to Truce Films. Graeme is co-author of the bestselling Menzies Mental Health series with his wife, Anne Buist.