Book Launch: What Is Left For Us by Sophie Stern

Join us at Harry Hartog Mosman to celebrate the launch of Sophie Stern's fierce new novel, What Is Left For Us. Sophie will be in conversation with Alice Moldovan.

Meet Rebecca and Hannah: inseparable sisters, until a betrayal tears their relationship apart and spins their lives in different directions.

Rebecca thinks the past is behind her.

She has spent the last ten years working as a lawyer at an insurance firm in London, but she’s unfulfilled in her job, and her boyfriend, the one she didn’t even care about, has just dumped her. And then comes an email from Hannah, the sister she hasn’t spoken to in a decade.

On the surface, Hannah has it all.

A perfect house, a high-flying husband, an adorable daughter. But the facade is crumbling. Forced to reunite with Rebecca when they jointly inherit their grandmother’s clifftop house in Bondi, Hannah is reminded of the life she gave up all those years ago.

Over two weeks, everything the sisters think they know about each other changes forever.

With fierce and complicated family dynamics and a suspenseful edge, What Is Left For Us will have you switching and dividing allegiances until the last page.

S​ophie Stern is from Sydney, Australia, where she lives with her husband and son. Her short fiction has been published in magazines and literary zines including Yen Magazine and Ellipsis Zine, and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. The manuscript of her first novel was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize in 2024.

Alice Moldovan works as a digital, podcast and radio producer at the ABC.