A Flash in the Dust by Meg Caddy Book Launch
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Sat 6 Jun
10:30am-12pm
Location
State Library Theatre - Ground Floor
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Meg Caddy invites you to celebrate the launch of their queer adventure novel, A Flash in the Dust.
‘A gripping story of adventure, escape and queer love.’ -Lili Wilkinson
Come along and find out more about the creative process and the book’s inception, with a Q&A moderated by Kate Emery and books available for purchase through Dymocks.
Presented by The Literature Centre, in partnership with the State Library of Western Australia.
About the book
1899, Fremantle Asylum, Western Australia. For three years now, Gilberta Brady has kept quiet and stayed out of trouble, hoping to soon be released. But when Norah Devaney screams into the ward with revenge in her heart and a story no-one believes, Brady’s carefully guarded peace is shattered.
On the run and out of options, they collide with Malkar and Kedalak, Nyungar brothers on their own journey home. They form an unlikely gang of bushrangers and embark on a dangerous mission: track down the man who killed Norah’s mum.
But the Whistling Man is hunting them too.
About the author
Meg Caddy is a West Australian YA novelist with three published novels. Their first three novels, Waer, Devil's Ballast and Slipping the Noose, have been short- and longlisted for awards including the CBCA Book of the Year Award, the Readings Young Adult Book Prize and the ARA Historical Novel Prize.
Meg is nonbinary and asexual. They have completed an Honours degree in English/History, writing on the Golden Age of Piracy, and a PhD in Creative Writing. When they're not writing, elbows-deep in archives or chasing around their toddler, Meg plays an unhealthy amount of Dungeons & Dragons.
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