Prima Facie: Suzie Miller In Conversation with Michaela Kalowski

Join us for this very special author talk! Suzie Miller in conversation with Michaela Kalowski to discuss her new novel, based on her award-winning play, Prima Facie.

WHEN: Thursday, 5th October 2023. Check-in begins at 6.15pm for a prompt 7pm start. 

WHERE: Paddington Uniting Church, 395 Oxford street, Paddington NSW 2021

TICKETS: There are 2 ticket packages available. All tickets include a welcome drink on arrival.

• ADMISSION ONLY: $25.00 (excluding external fees). Your ticket includes admission to the event.
• ADMISSION + BOOK BUNDLE: $50.00 (excluding external fees). Your ticket includes admission to the event, as well as a copy of Suzie's new novel, Prima Facie (RRP $34.99). 

All of Suzie's books and plays will be available to purchase on the night, and she will happily sign copies after the talk.

Brought to you by Pan Macmillan and Gertrude & Alice

Please note: 

There is a car park at 2 Newcombe Street, Paddington.

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About the author:

Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, screen-writer and novelist. Based in both London, UK and Sydney, Australia, Miller’s work has been produced around the world winning multiple prestigious awards, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 2023, for her smash hit one-woman play Prima Facie, which had a sold-out season on London’s West end 2022 and again on Broadway in New York, 2023. Miller is educated in science and law, with a doctorate in drama and mathematics. She practised human rights law before writing full time and is currently developing major projects across the UK, USA and Australia in theatre, literature and screen. This is her first novel.

About Prima Facie:

Based on her award winning play by the same name.

Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from a working-class background to be at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. Her masterful line of questioning in the courtroom has netted Tessa win after win, freeing men accused of rape and sexual assault. As controversial as it is, this is her job - it's just about the facts and who can game the system.

Working late one night, Tessa falls into a casual relationship with Julian, a coworker, an attorney who comes from an elite, wealthy family. A light-hearted affair, with a man she admires. She begins to wonder if perhaps there is a future for the two of them.

One sickening night, though, Julian makes a choice and Tessa finds herself in a position countless women - one in
three - have before her. And she's faced with a gut-wrenching, life-changing decision: will she take the stand to testify
about her rape, with the full awareness that the system has not been built to protect her?

About the host:

Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator & curator for writers and ideas festivals. Highlight interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Michelle de Kretser, & Stan Grant. She's curator of ABC RN’s on-air writers’ festival, Big Weekend of Books, now in its fourth year.She also produces and hosts a monthly books conversation event for Petersham Bowling Club in Sydney. Michaela has conducted radio interviews and presented programs across ABC radio and is the co-presenter & co-writer of a two-part podcast for ABC RN, tracing part of her family’s history, called Laya’s Way Home.