Sally Piper: 'People like us' - Indooroopilly Library

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/...Join bestselling author Sally Piper as she shares her new novel, 'People Like Us'.

About the book

After Tina Lamb loses her family home in a bitter divorce, she finds herself living in a caravan on the city’s fringes. Having raised four children and nursed her dying mum, she was not anticipating making a new start alone or from scratch. And while some of her new neighbours are welcoming, she soon finds herself getting far more attention than she bargained for.

When Tina finds work caring for a wealthy elderly woman, it is a welcome break from an ageist, sexist job market. But Mrs Bell is anything but predictable. Highly educated, acerbic and intimidating, she is not the straightforward charge that Tina had hoped for. As the two women form an unlikely friendship, they soon discover that financial security is about more than having money.

Topical and absorbing, People Like Us celebrates the power of female friendships and the promise of new beginnings found in unexpected places.

About the author

Sally Piper is the author of three novels: Grace’s Table (2014); The Geography of Friendship (2018), which was shortlisted for the ABIA Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year; and Bone Memories (2022), a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards for a Work of State Significance and the People’s Choice Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and a Davitt Award. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in Australia and the UK, including in Griffith Review, The Saturday Paper, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Weekend Australian. Sally holds a Master of Arts (Research) in Creative Writing from Queensland University of Technology. She is an active member of the Queensland writing community, where she presents workshops, leads in-conversations and mentors other writers.

Sally will be joined in conversation with Susan Johnson. Susan is the author of eight novels and two nonfiction books. Her most recent book is the memoir Aphrodite’s Breath (2023). She has been nominated for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Gold Medal, the Miles Franklin Award, and more. She has been published by Faber & Faber UK/US; Washington Square Press; and more. Susan is the recipient of several fellowships including the Literature Board of the Australia Council and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Books will be available for purchase or bring your copy from home to be signed. Presented as part of the Lord Mayor’s Writers in Residence series.

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