Book Chat with Toby Roberts
3pm Sunday 13 November
Toby Roberts in conversation with Barbie Robinson to chat about Toby's memoir Two Mums and a Dad.
About Two Mums and a Dad:
Sydney’s leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties made them stick out, then a mum with a procession of live-in lovers had the neighbours wondering if this mob had mistaken Beecroft for Lesbos.
Toby Robert’s memoir Two Mums and a Dad covers his teenage years, growing up with a lesbian mum in the northern suburbs of Sydney in the 1980s. He and his siblings were encouraged to lead creative lives, but Toby disappointed everyone by becoming a lawyer.
After working for several years in Asia and London, Toby returned to Sydney, where he currently lives with his wife and two children.
Toby has written a number of short stories which have been converted into podcasts and broadcast on Radio National, but Two Mums and a Dad is his first book. The book was published by Bad Apple Press in 2021 and it received media coverage in The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC 702 Radio, and Channel 10 TV.
Venue
The Book Cow Bookshop
Lava Espresso Bar, Eyre Street Markets
34 Eyre Street
Kingston, ACT 2604