**Join us at Books@Stones on 17 June for the launch of Forgotten by Casey Nott, in-conversation with Jo Skinner.**

A sharp examination of what it looks like to be a woman in today's society, this book is for anyone who's woken up at forty and wondered what has happened to their life.

After a traumatic car accident, Ava Durant wakes up in hospital not remembering how she got there. However, that's not all she's forgotten. The last ten years of her memory are gone and she's not a thirty-year-old woman anymore, she's forty. Struggling to come to terms with everything she's lost, she tries to live in her new reality but everything is foreign and unfamiliar. Her husband has gone, her friends are different and life is unrecognisable. In order to move forward she has to go backwards to unearth her forgotten past and the secrets that have shaped her.

Casey Nott is an author who writes contemporary fiction that celebrates women and explores the challenges they face in modern society. Her debut novel, Forgotten, was long listed in the 2022 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Competition and will be out in June 2024. She lives in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne with her husband and three children, of whom she’s quite fond.

Jo Skinner is a Brisbane-based GP who writes contemporary women's fiction as well as freelance non-fiction articles about women’s issues and mental health. Her debut novel was The Truth About My Daughter (2024) and her second novel A World of Silence will be released in June 2025. Jo also has a distance running habit. When she is not working or writing, you will find her accruing kilometres while plotting her next story.