Book Party for Believe in Me by Lucy Neave
5:45pm Monday 29 November, The Street Theatre, Canberra
Join Lucy Neave along with MC Professor Rosalind Smith and special guest Nigel Featherstone to celebrate the 2021 release of Lucy Neave's second novel, Believe In Me.
5:45pm arrival for a 6:15pm start.
Please wear a face mask except when eating or drinking, and check in using the Covid Safe App.
Believe In Me is an unforgettable and profound novel about three generations of one family and the healing power of understanding where you’ve come from.
As a teenager in the 1970s, Sarah is forced to leave her home in upstate New York to accompany a missionary to Idaho. When she falls pregnant, she is dispatched to relatives in Sydney, who place her in a home for unmarried mothers. Years later her daughter, Bet, pieces together her mother’s life story, hoping to understand her better. As she learns more about Sarah’s past, Bet struggles to come to terms with her own history and identity, yet is determined to make peace with Sarah’s choices before it’s too late.
Books will be available to purchase with Harry Hartog Booksellers. This event is free, but registration is essential. Please RSVP by Friday 26 November.
Lucy Neave’s moving and deeply personal second novel, Believe in Me, explores the relationships between mothers and their children across three generations of one family. The book questions what we can ever truly know of our parents’ early lives, even as their experiences weave ineffably into our identities and destinies.
About the Author
Lucy Neave grew up in Australia, Toronto, London and Kathmandu, and has spent several years living in the United States: first as a Fulbright scholar completing a Master of Fine Arts in writing, then teaching English in universities, and in 2019 as a visiting scholar in the English department at New York University. Lucy’s first novel, Who We Were, was shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year. Her short fiction has been published in a range of Australian and American literary journals and in Best Australian Stories, and she was awarded a Griffith Review novella prize in 2018. She teaches creative writing at the Australian National University, where she is Associate Dean, Student Experience. She is the mother of two children.
Venue
The Street Theatre, Canberra
15 Childers St, City West ACT 2601
T: (02) 6247 1223