Vicki Laveau-Harvie on The Erratics
Thu, 20 June
|Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead
Vicki Laveau-Harvie's extraordinary memoir The Erratics won this year's Stella Prize. Join us as she discusses her book, writing journey, and the fascinating family experiences that spawned it. Vicki will be in-conversation with Sacha Horler.
Time & Location
20 June 2019, 6:30 pm
Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia
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About The Event
Vicki Laveau-Harvie's extraordinary memoir The Erratics won this year's Stella Prize. Join us as she discusses her book, writing journey, and the fascinating family experiences that spawned it. Vicki will be in-conversatoin with Sacha Horler.
About the Book
A ferocious, sharp, darkly funny and wholly compelling memoir of families, the pain they can inflict and the legacy they leave, The Erratics has the tightly coiled, compressed energy of an explosive device - it will take your breath away.
When Vicki Laveau-Harvie's elderly mother is hospitalised unexpectedly, Vicki and her sister travel to their parents' isolated ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to help their father. Estranged from their parents for many years, Vicki and her sister are horrified by what they discover on their arrival. For years, Vicki's mother has camouflaged her manic delusions and savage unpredictability, and over the decades she has managed to shut herself and her husband…
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