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Join us as we celebrate the release of Monica McInerney's new release - When Sullivan Met Lola, due to be published on 29 September.Books will be available for purchase and signing and refreshments will be provided.
The Correspondent meets About a Boy in a luminous intergenerational story from one of Australia's most successful storytellers, Monica McInerney.
What happens when and 86-year-old woman who is running out of time and a 12-year-old boy who feels invisible become exactly the friend the other needs?
Featuring two of Monica's most beloved characters in the gorgeous stand-alone story, When Sullivan Met Lola celebrates all that makes life worth living.
Sullivan Farrington is a brilliant, lonely Melbourne boy whose life has become a maze of notebooks, train routes, school bullies and grown-up secrets.
Lola Quinlan has come to Melbourne from the Clare Valley on a very specific mission: To revisit the places that once made her feel young, loved and fully alive, before her failing eyesight takes them from her.
Together they set out across Melbourne, from theatres and galleries to Brighton Beach and the Botanic Gardens. Lola needs Sullivan's steadiness, curiousity and sharp young eyes. Sullivan needs Lola's humour, nerve and complete attention.
Neither of them expects the scrapes, secrets and emotional reckonings that follow. Both discover that friendship can arrive late, oddly, incoveniently and exactly when it is needed.
Lola's fierce appetite for people and stories meets Sullivan's literal, tender brilliance, creating a duo readers will not want to leave.
McInerney writes with her signature warmth, wit and deep understanding of family. Here she explores ageing, childhood loneliness and the way ordinary acts of care can alter the course of a life.
When Sullivan Met Lola is a novel about being seen before it is too late, and about the unlikely friendships that bring us back to ourselves.
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