Event #39
Monica McInerney: When Sullivan Met Lola
Monica McInerney + Frances Whiting
Powerhouse Theatre
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Monica McInerney: When Sullivan Met Lola
In conversation with Frances Whiting
1–2pm, Friday 9 October, Powerhouse Theatre
A new Monica McInerney novel is reason enough to celebrate – but how about a new Monica McInerney novel that unites two of her most beloved characters? In this gorgeous standalone story, 12-year-old Melburnian Sullivan Farrington feels as though he’s hit rock bottom – until he finds an unexpected friend in 86-year-old Lola Quinlan, who’s come to the Victorian capital on a very specific and unusual mission. When the two join forces, they’ve got no idea the trouble they’re about to cause – but thank goodness they’ve got each other ...
#Artists
Monica McInerney
Monica McInerney is the internationally best-selling, award-winning author of 14 novels and one children’s book. She grew up in a family of nine in South Australia’s Clare Valley. For 35 years, Monica has moved between Australia and Ireland with her Irish husband. They currently live in Dublin.
Frances Whiting
Frances Whiting is one of Australia's best known and respected writers. As national senior feature writer for News Magazines, she has won many journalism awards, including the Clarions Outstanding Contribution to Journalism prize in 2023. Frances has a national column in News Limited weekend magazines, and a weekly column which — at 28 years — is Australia's longest running Sunday column. She has written two best sellers, Walking on Trampolines and The Best Kind of Beautiful, as well as two collections of her much loved columns, Oh To Be a Marching Girl, and That's a Home Run Tiger.
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