Ben’s Book Club

Name: Ben’s Book Club
Start: 2024-04-23T19:30:00+10:00
End: 2024-04-23T20:30:00+10:00
Location: Virtual

Join Ben Hobson in conversation with author Bruce Nash to discuss his wickedly funny and genuinely moving novel ‘All The Words We Know’.

Tuesday April 23rd, at 7:30PM AEST

Ben’s Book Club is a free monthly digital book club hosted by author Ben Hobson – brought to you by OverDrive. Join in on the fourth Tuesday of each month to engage and interact with authors from all genres. During this digital book club, guests will have the opportunity to ask questions, interact with the authors, and enjoy a well-rounded bookish discussion.

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About Bruce Nash:

Bruce Nash was awarded a 2022 Varuna Residential Fellowship for an earlier draft of this manuscript. He has been shortlisted for several writing awards and his short fiction has appeared in Meanjin, Australian Short Stories and anthologies. Bruce is a retired teacher and now lives on the southern New South Wales coast.

About ‘All The Words We Know’:

In the beginning is the whatsitsname. The woman in the car park. She wears a nightgown and lies on her back, looking up at the sky. The nightgown is white and embroidered at the neck with blue . . . what do you call them? Forget-me-nots. A small crowd is gathered around her. All in their unicorns. Uniforms. All younger than the woman, much younger. They look at each other. They look up at the sky. They look down at the woman. They whisper.

Rose is in her eighties and has dementia, but she’s not done with life just yet. Alternately sharp as a tack and spectacularly forgetful, she spends her days roaming the corridors of her aged-care facility, ruminating on the staff and residents and enduring visits from her emotionally distant children and grand-daughters. But when her friend is found dead after an apparent fall from a window, Rose embarks on an eccentric and deeply personal investigation to discover the truth and exposes all manner of secrets – even some from her own past.

Meanwhile, two young female lawyers from a law firm in Sydney have disappeared.

Are the missing lawyers linked to the dead judge? Can O’Connor unravel the connections before the body count rises further? And how much does Angela Avery really know?