Book Launch - Lucy Nelson

Join Port Kembla writer Lucy Nelson launching her new book Wait Here (Simon & Schuster) and in conversation with Brisbane novelist Emily O'Grady, author of the Stella-shortlisted Feast. Rather than the traditional Q&A format, Lucy and Emily will host an in-depth two-way discussion about writing childless female characters in all of their complexity. It's a book launch with a plot twist!

About Wait Here

A dazzling collection of hilarious and heart-wrenching stories united by a groundbreaking theme: each is a sidelong glance at the lives of women who – either by choice or by circumstance – will never be mothers and who feel every way it is possible to feel about it. 

For the women in Wait Here, who can’t, don’t or won’t have children, childlessness is a hard-won prize, a freedom, a stain, a joy, a battle, a trifle, a conundrum, a wound, an uneasy comfort on a burning planet.

It is nothing. It is everything.