Sorrento Writers' Festival - Meet The Debutants

Our new novelists share their first foray...

Davin Ardlie, Emily Lighezzolo and Cameron Sullivan with Jo Dyer.

Join us as we celebrate three debutant authors and learn about the process of writing and publishing your first novel.

About Life Drawing:

Hypothetically, would you want to live forever but invisible, or a short life seen? Hypothetically, would you give up wine forever or sex for ten years? Hypothetically, would you show a friend someone else’s nude?

Maisie and Charlie meet at a life-drawing session as undergraduates: she’s the model, he’s an artist. Their immediate connection carries them across two decades as they navigate the slippery dynamics of friendship, estrangement and family.

Maisie’s story is every woman’s, and Emily Lighezzolo’s bold debut interrogates the collision of art and gaze, desire and consent, muse and meaning. This is a love story. At its core: a woman’s body – seen, touched, loved, hated, commodified and reclaimed. Life Drawing is an award-winning and unflinching novel for our times.

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