Gail Jones Breakfast

Breakfast with acclaimed author Gail Jones

29 May
7.30 – 8.15 am
Senior School Dining Room

We are delighted to invite you to the opening breakfast for our Celebration of Storytelling, featuring acclaimed Australian author Gail Jones. 

Parents and daughters are welcome to attend and tea, coffee, juices and pastries will be available as Gail presents an author talk with a short Q&A to follow.  

Tickets are free and we ask you to please RSVP by Monday 22 May.

For enquiries, please contact Terri Moore, Head of Research, Learning and Enrichment on mooret@abbotsleigh.nsw.edu.au

About Gail Jones: 

Gail Jones is the author of two collections of short stories and five novels including Sixty Lights which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Dreams of Speaking which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize, and Sorry which was longlisted for the Orange Prize.

Three times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier's Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction and the ASAL Gold Medal.

Her fiction has been translated into nine languages.

Gail lives in Sydney and teaches at the University of Western Sydney.