AUTHOR TALK with Brooke Boland - Gulp, Swallow: Essays on Change

Brooke lives and works on Yuin Country in regional NSW. Her essays have been published by Meanjin, Overland, and the Sydney Review of Books. This is Brooke’s first book.

Gulp, Swallow: Essays on change Published by Upswell 2024
What happens when who you are is different to who you imagined you’d be?

In conversation with Sarah Enright, Brooke will discuss her wide-ranging collection of essays on how she moved on from the person she was to understand who she is now. She swims with sharks, falls in love with a rabbit, and watches her father fight for his life. She is a newcomer in a small regional town and a mother, but what else? She writes about family and friends, life and mortality, memory and forgetting, and along the way finds her voice again.

This book is for anyone who has felt unmoored. It is about the unremarkable in-between, the way we try to build a home from nothing, the dirty dishes and the loads of washing. The uncertainty and the love. But written in sparkling prose with a sly and wry tone that is illuminating about the everyday as it pitches for a rich and fulfilled life.

Join us at Wax Lyrical on Friday 15th November @ 530pm
Tickets are $20 (includes refreshments).