Name: FALS Book Club - February
Start: 2025-02-28T19:00:00+10:00
Location: Townsville Yacht Club

Our book for February is: Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton!
Liked it? Loved it? Didn't finish it? Come anyway!
The FALS Book Club is a no-shame book club, so grab a drink*, order something from the menu* and share your thoughts with fellow Australian literature lovers.
Please RSVP by Wednesday 26th February so we can confirm numbers at the venue.
Following the cancellation of January's meeting due to the severe weather events, we'll also be discussing our January book, Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko.
*at bar/menu prices
From the publisher:
A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat. They've found themselves a home inside a van with four flat tyres parked in a scrapyard by the edge of the Brisbane River.
The girl has no name because names are dangerous when you're on the run. But the girl has a dream. A vision of a life as an artist of international acclaim. A life outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld drug queen 'Lady' Flora Box. A life of love with the boy who's waiting for her on the bridge that stretches across a flooding, deadly river. A life beyond the bullet that has her name on it. And now that the storm clouds are rising, there's only one person who can help make her dreams come true. That person is Lola and she carries all the answers. But to find Lola, the girl with no name must first do one of the hardest things we can ever do. She must look in the mirror.
From international bestselling author Trent Dalton, Lola in the Mirror is a big, moving, blackly funny, violent, heartbreaking and beautiful novel of love, fate, life and death and all the things we see when we look in the mirror: all our past, all our present, and all our possible futures.
About the author:
Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award-winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories and Lola in the Mirror. His books have sold over 1.2 million copies in Australia alone.