Join us for the launch of Nadia Mahjouri’s debut novel Half Truth, featuring an in-conversation with Queensland Writers Centre.

Come join us at Queensland Writers Centre for the launch of member Nadia Mahjouri's Publishable-shortlisted debut novel Half Truth (Penguin Random House 2024). The evening will also feature an in-conversation with Queensland Writers Centre.

Half Truth

A daughter searches for her father; a mother for her son. From isolated Tasmania to vibrant Morocco, two women seek the truth about what happened to the same man.

Khadija is packing up her home of fifty years. In her box of special things are the last reminders she has of her son Ahmed, missing for more than twenty years. Her belongings take her back to her village childhood, her marriage and move to Marrakech.

In Tasmania, Zahra is in the throes of new motherhood and desperate for answers about her own identity. She decides to take her baby to Morocco and search for the father she has never known. There she finds an extensive loving family and a culture ready to embrace her, but no father.

Zahra and Khadija’s stories collide – giving Khadija the power to move on, and Zahra the courage to embrace her identity as a mother and a mixed-race woman, ready to create a fulfilling life for her son and herself.

A moving drama charting families, motherhood and loss, identity and belonging.

About Nadia

Nadia Mahjouri is a Moroccan Australian writer, counsellor, and group facilitator specialising in maternal mental health. Her professional background is in health policy, governance and academia, where her research focused on ethics and feminist philosophy.

Nadia and her husband live in Hobart/nipaluna with varying combinations of their family which includes three young adults, two school-aged children and a black labrador puppy called Russell Sprout.

She is the host of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life. In this podcast, Nadia interviews authors about how they manage to keep writing while living in the messy middle of family life, work and creativity.

Half Truth is her debut novel. You can find her at nadiamahjouri.com.au or @‌nadiamahjouriauthor

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