Great Big Book Club: This is Where We Say Goodbye by Howard McKenzie-Murray
Description
Fremantle Press is delighted to invite you to celebrate the launch of This is Where We Say Goodbye, by Howard McKenzie-Murray, as part of our 2026 Great Big Book Club series, hosted by AH Bracks Library + Creative Space.
This Is Where We Say Goodbye follows twenty-one-year-old Maud Tarkington over the course of the day she must attend the funeral of her favourite brother, Lloyd. But instead, Maud is ricocheting around the city, looking for signs of life – will she even make it to Lloyd’s send-off?
Shortlisted for the 2024 Hungerford Award, This Is Where We Say Goodbye is a quirky, bittersweet story about family ties, memory and the unexpected ways we hold it together when everything has fallen apart.
Books will be available to purchase on the night, with the author on hand for signing.
Please RSVP to secure your spot!
About the author
Howard McKenzie-Murray
Howard McKenzie-Murray is a writer born on Whadjuk land in the settler-state of WA. He writes fiction and for the theatre. After studying languages and philosophy at UWA and Murdoch University, he lived abroad and travelled widely. Howard uses his skills as a playwright, compressing explosive material into a compact time frame with clever dialogue.
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About the Great Big Book Club Series
The Great Big Book Club series is a longstanding collaboration between Fremantle Press, local libraries and booksellers. As an initiative to connect with our local reading and writing community, the event series has helped establish audiences for emerging authors, given WA retailers the opportunity to benefit from book sales, activated library spaces and brought the reading community together to share their love of Western Australian stories.
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