Book launch of ‘Eudaimania: Happiness Disease’ by Simone Abbot

What can YOU 🫵 do to create community? And how might doing that improve your own wellbeing?

Simone Abbot’s debut novel, Eudaimania: Happiness Disease asks these questions — and MANY more!

When idealistic speechwriter Kat Warlow hears of rumours in 2001 that her job’s demands of advising Lachlan Stuart MP — Australia’s ‘Sexiest Minister Alive’ — have strayed beyond the professional, she needs to find somewhere safe to lie low, even though the only place that feels less safe than Parliament House is back home.

Simone’s roman a clef to 2001 addresses political rhetoric, intergenerational trauma and wellbeing, multiculturalism and belonging in the midst of Australia’s culture wars.

Join with Simone and her neighbour, ABC Radio Canberra producer and presenter Hannah Walmsley, as they launch Simone’s political drama set 25 years ago, just as Australia’s 2001 culture wars were hitting their peak following the MV Tampa crisis and 9-11.

And together they will explore ‘all the questions’ of modern living that might be dragging you down, and what YOU 🫵 can do about it!