Author Talk: Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades

Join Chloe in conversation with poet and lecturer Lynley Edmeades as they talk about her book, Hiding Places.

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“She drinks coffee until she can drink wine and then she goes to sleep so that she can wake up and drink coffee until she can drink wine again. Is this not the story of every mother?”

Does that sound like you? Or someone you know? This is the event for you!

This collection of essays, stories, snippets, and vignettes is poetically built on unsent love letters to an admired writer (very Chris Kraus), archaic parenting advice from Plunket founder Truby King, and musigns on trying to write essays among the debris of early motherhood.

It’s an exceptional, poignant and playful homage to the impossible standards women put upon themselves while trying to maintain any semblance of creative identity.