Fake - Stephanie Wood in conversation with Benjamin Law

We're thrilled to host Stephanie Wood discussing her jaw-dropping memoir 'Fake' with Benjamin Law. In this brilliantly acute and broad-ranging book, Wood has written a riveting, important account of contemporary love, and the resilience of those who have witnessed its darkest sides. 

About The Book

Fake is a powerful, richly layered investigative story for our times, drawing on the personal stories of Stephanie and other women who have been drawn into relationships based on duplicity and false hope.

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a former architect turned farmer she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, loving, truthful. They talk about the future. She falls in love. She also becomes increasingly beset by anxiety at his frequent cancellations, no-shows and bizarre excuses. She starts to…