Rachel Morton in conversation at The Wheeler Centre

Celebrating the winner of 2024’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Rachel Morton discusses her highly anticipated novel The Sun Was Electric Light.

The Sun Was Electric Light is the debut breakout that ‘rinsed clean’ Helen Garner’s heart and nerves.

Morton’s protagonist, a woman disillusioned with life in the big city, returns to the lake town in Guatemala where she had been happy a decade earlier. There, she strikes up friendships with two very different women – and through them is forced to confront what it means to belong to a place. This is a tale that quietly agitates for connection, belonging and a life well lived, finding power in its simplicity and beauty through interiority.

With host Allee Richards, Morton takes the stage at The Wheeler Centre to discuss her award-winning debut work that has already captured the imagination of some of this country's most beloved writers.

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