#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
The past few years have seen women raising their voices for social change; in Meg Bignell’s warm, generous new novel, they are also required to harmonise. Join Meg to discuss this gloriously Australian tale of motherhood, independence and solidarity between women in the unmissable book club event of the year.
Supported by Moreton Bay Regional Council
#Artist
Meg Bignell
Meg Bignell is the author of four novels published by Penguin Random House — The Sparkle Pages, Welcome to Nowhere River, The Angry Women’s Choir, and The Good Losers. She has also authored one non-fiction book — Tasmanian Gardens (Thames and Hudson). The Angry Women’s Choir was shortlisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award and won the People’s Choice Award for Fiction at the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards. Meg has written, directed and performed for cabaret, film, stage and television, and in the 2000s was Tasmania’s weather presenter for the Nine Network. Meg lives on a farm on Tasmania’s east coast with her husband, three children, one dog and one thousand cows.